Missing link (human evolution) - Wikipedia
Between about 100,000 and 40,000 years ago, there was a period of rapid cognitive development in human evolution known as the “cognitive revolution,” or “Great Leap Forward.” During this period, which followed the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, there was a relatively sudden appearance of complex behaviors, such as abstract thinking,... See more
instagram.comNatural Selection is no Hero’s Journey, no Deity Designing
And sadly we’ve cocooned ourselves so far from the pressures, the larger forces at ecological play we (we being the privileged few in wealthy, prevalent cultures, the 1/3rd or Global North ….) have actually de-volved as a result. Our social licence is writ large with one basic, infantile
... See moreMore important, the analogy between history and biology that underpins the “clash of civilizations” thesis is false. Human groups—all the way from small tribes to huge civilizations—are fundamentally different from animal species, and historical conflicts differ greatly from natural selection processes.

