What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Comparing traits of humans and other species
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What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Exploring the characteristics of our ancestors, their living conditions, and the
Human Evolution Resources Gesturing and shared attention Even before children begin to speak, they are already communicating with the people around them: with the
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 Evolution of endurance running Many features of our body and our physiology suggest that they are not merely adaptations to upright
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
