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These findings insist on the idea that our ancestors evolved to be scavengers and gatherers because it was the only way to find nutrients. Early humans were required to search for food. Conditions required them to evolve in a way that the body stores energy, so when resources became scarce, they stayed healthy and could contribute to their community efficiently. Obtaining the ability to store energy in order for humans stay healthy was an extremely important factor. After our ancestors migrated out of East Africa, they evolved to wonder and scavenge for food. Now, humans are able to live comfortably in a single location. Compared to our ancestors constantly moving looking for food and shelter. (Jurmain et al. 350-351).

Human societies have also evolved from simple structures of early hunting-and-gathering communities to the more complex cosmopolitan cities of today. The hunting-and-gathering communities were fairly simple societies demanding the minimum of resources. Complexity grew with farming communities and more energy was necessary to sustain the larger populations and the demands of a stable, non-nomadic life. Early civilizations saw an increase in complexity with the introduction of specialization and trade. Which, again, required more energy to sustain even larger communities. Cultural evolution has evolved so much that cities today are only possible because of humans’ ability to control energy by the movement of food across large distances to easily accessible locations (McNeill 2003, 320-321).

During the time of the Renaissance, the nature of man, in Europe, went through a rebirth. The idea that the nature of man is unique upon the person was established. The core basis of all men is not the same. Different men are comprised of various types of talents, and not every person has the exact same talents. In addition, human beings strive to live their lives a certain way, which is usually different from their neighbor.

Prior to living in homes build to with stand the test of time, growing food their food source, and raising animals, humans were nomads who followed their food source around and were hunters and gathers. Although it took many years, from 8000B.C. to 3000B.C. for humans to go from hunters and gathers to a more common day life as we now know it, the result is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution the begins of human civilization. As the people of this time began to settle down and they began to both farm the land and domesticate animals for the better of the community. Along with the development of these communities as for the first time began to create social class among the many different roles they played in their community. Because

Humanism and Behaviorism both promote learning and provide an explanation for behaviors in their own ways. Both theories have document success in the learning

Since the first day that humans were put on this earth, they have been curious and have searched for ways to become more efficient. Throughout the years they have created tools to better serve them, created clothing to keep them warm, built homes to protect them from the elements, and produced transportation methods to transport them across the world. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), the human race has evolved to being extremely efficient in everything that they do. This efficiency includes producing new human beings. Science has taken over and altered the society.

As we look back in time, ages ago, humans had organized ways of living. Scientist have found that it is easiest to classify their body into seven categories. These categories consist of urban focus, new political and military structures, new social structure based on economic power, the development of more complexity in a material sense, a distinct religious structure, the development of writing, and new and significant artistic and intellectual activity. Each of these categories played a key role in the effectiveness in which their societies were ran. We have been able to find evidence from as far back as 250,000 years ago.

This chapter beings explaining the evolution of mankind. Prior to 11,000 BCE, all humans were equal. Due to our evolutionary past, we branched off from apes to humans and spread around the world. Nearly 4 million years ago, humans began their mark on earth in Africa. Jared Diamond compares human development on all seven continents about 13,000 years ago. Although many early humans were found primarily in Eurasia and Africa, over time they expanded and gained new territory. The early humans created tools as they evolved, and many became hunter and gatherers. Then, human history made a Great Leap Forward around 40,000 BCE. The Great Leap Forward was when the earliest humans created new technology and exciting innovations that did not exist previously

In “Ethnical Periods”, Lewis H. Morgan explains that mankind has evolved through different stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. He therefore, argues that social evolution helped state level societies form. He explains in detail that different groups of people underwent different conditions, yet they all contributed towards the progress of mankind evolution. Throughout the different stages that mankind went through, each stage passed on an ideal that helped the next stage succeed. Morgan explains, “with the knowledge gained therefrom, we may hope to indicate the principal stages of human development” (Morgan 4). Morgan describes human development through the inventions and discoveries of: subsistence, government, language, the family, religion, house life,

Humans are the most unique species on Earth. We have gained the ability to things never accomplished before on Earth. We can control our environment, domesticate other species, and more importantly, form complex connections and societies with one another. However, it is widely debated about how we evolved from simple ape-like foragers to the meat-eating, community-building species we are today. In this paper, we will be looking at three authors: Richard Wrangham, Pat Shipman, and Frans de Wall. Each of which approach this question from different directions.

From the time that fully modern humans emerged about 100,00 years ago up until approximately 12,000 years ago, societies of humans practiced foraging as a means for their survival. This period in which foraging was predominant is known as the “pre-complexity” period. In the traditional sense, anthropologists classify “complex” societies as those that are sedentary and practice farming instead of foraging. The traditional classification of a sedentary, agrarian society as “complex” is imperfect because it discounts the societal complexities found within foraging bands. While these societies are sometimes portrayed as primitive without culture, they actually have an egalitarian social structure with language, religion, and a vast knowledge of the landscape in which they lived. The !Kung people of southern Africa, for example, were able to identify close to 90 different plant species and utilize them in their diet. While there were clear gender specific roles in foraging societies, where women tended to gather plants while men hunted, the societies themselves did not have persistent inequalities. This was necessary

Since the beginning of time, humans like animals, possess certain innate behaviors that both are naturally born with. For example, animals are born, taken care of and spend their life making sure they have enough food in order to survive and in the end, reproduce. Similarly, humans also possess a natural instinct to survive, consume, and reproduce in order to keep this on-going cycle alive. The comparison between humans and animals at time may disturb certain people due to the simplification and degradation of the human race. However, it is this naturalistic view in life that certain individuals believe should not be shielded from the public in order to “protect” people and instead, believe it is necessary to educate as many people possible in the reasoning and acceptance of mankind’s innate actions. The novel McTeague, written by Frank Norris, is a book that demonstrates an individual 's natural behaviors and desires which continues to be carried out by people today just as it has been since the beginning of time. It is through McTeague, that Frank Norris illustrates mankind’s naturalistic behavior that not only grabs the attention of the readers but infuriates the public as well.

Cultural complexity would not be possible without advanced cognition, but it was not likely an initial selective force in the development of larger brains. As high cognitive ability is a precondition for flexible foraging strategies, which in turn makes larger group sizes and a more stratified distribution of resources possible, these central aspects of complicated cultures are not able to explain the forces behind human encephalization. Rather, complex ecological features, such as seasonality and large-scale climate change, exerted adaptive pressure toward the development of cognitive ability on predecessors to modern humans. Only after cognitive ability developed to a point so as to allow the creation of complicated cultures could social pressures significantly influence the evolutionary trajectory of modern humans. Finally, the high energetic costs associated with large brains make prosociality, which mitigates the amount of energy wasted in competition and enable coordinated foraging strategies, an important catalyst for encephalization. Preexisting sociability and advanced cognition provide the foundations for the behavioral flexibility and complicated cultures characteristic of modern humans.

Every day there seems to be a new invention stealing human interest. Some people say humanity is at it’s peak. Many others disagree with this notion. The short stories, “Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bison, and “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender deal with this idea of evolution and humanity. Both of these stories, support the idea that humans have evolved past humanity. There are characters who are directly affected by the repercussions of over-evolution. Throughout “Bears Discover Fire” and “The Rememberer,” the characters explore the tipping point of humanity.

According to a recent census the world’s population is increasing at a rate of 80 million individuals a year (“The World Factbook” n.d.). This is equivalent to the population of Germany every year. Humanity is growing faster now than at any other period in history. New technological inventions are being devised, new biological developments are found everyday, and current-edge infrastructure breaks the boundaries of what man thought was possible. The society’s amelioration raises an important question: do the improvements of man warrant his superiority, or is nature still dominant? To clearly understand we must be familiar with the concepts and champions for each separate conviction. In the book Man and Nature, George Perkins Marsh details