an emergent
website design
by
peter jay stein, md, ma
atmosphere
asthenosphere
lithosphere
regolith
biosphere
hydrosphere
This 54 page synopsis of the evolution
of the Earth, the origin and progression of life, and the
emergence of humans as descendants of the hominin lineage, divides the last 4.57 billion years into progressively overlapping, imagistic, time segments, to outline our place in biological existence.
magnetosphere
ionosphere
FIFTY
Emergent Humans
BIPEDAL WALKING
FREEING OF HANDS
TOOL-MAKING
GROWTH OF BRAIN
MEAT-EATING
(COOKED)
LANGUAGE
RITUAL
CULTURE
ART
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
CONTROL OF FIRE
CONSCIOUS AWARENESS
HEATING/COOKING FOOD
SOCIAL AFFILIATION
AROUND
FIRE/HEARTH
pair-bonding
marriage
foundation of household
division of labor between genders
(UPRIGHT WALKING ON 2 LEGS)
AGRICULTURE
ADAPTING TO COLD CIMATES
PROTECTION FROM PREDATORS
MEAT-CUTTING
TOOLS
(2.6 MYA)
12,000 ya
(1.9 MYA - Homo habilis)
500 ya
(western empirical science)
(6-7 MYA)
HIGHER, MORE EFFICIENT CALORIC INGESTION
ANCESTRAL PRIMATES -
INFANT/CHILD
-SOCIALIZATION
-CHILD-REARING
-ATTACHMENT
(60 MYA)
TRADITION
*adapted from Dr. Richard Wrangham
Professor of Biological Anthropology
Harvard University
USE OF FIRE FOR COOKING - THE FOUNDATION OF HUMANITY*
SYMBOLISM
The Savannah Hypothesis of Human Evolution
(adapted from youtube source: see bibliography
language
complex social life
fire use and new tools
expanded diet
tool making
bipedalism
larger brains
hunting
The Savannah
The Savannah