Human Evolution Resources Gesturing and shared attention Even before children begin to speak, they are already communicating with the people around them: with the
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Human Evolution Resources Life in groups For our ancestors since Homo erectus, the survival and raising of offspring depended more and more on the
Human language and our capacity for symbolic thinking are probably among the most challenging set of human traits to study and understand …
Human Evolution Resources Life with other groups The evolution and history of our species is not only characterized by living in isolated and small
Human Evolution Resources Childhood, teaching, learning Primates, and apes in particular, have a long developmental phase (relative to the total lifespan) compared to other
Human Evolution Resources Creativity and flexibility Many traits are strongly influenced by genetic inheritance. Through random mutations in the genome, new features and traits
Human Evolution Resources Cultural Evolution At Darwin’s time, nothing was known about genes. Darwin and others only knew from observations in the world that
Human Evolution Resources Gene-culture Co-evolution Biological evolution and cultural evolution are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they can influence each other. Genetically evolved
Exploring various “behaviors of our mind” from an evolutionary perspective, including “Fast and Slow Thinking”, “Moral Taste Buds”, “Mental Time Travel”,
the “Noticer”, the “Discoverer”,
