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    This document discusses the biological and cultural evolution of early humans from the Paleolithic period to modern humans. It explains key concepts like biocultural evolution, how biology enables culture and culture further influences biological evolution. It outlines the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods marked by Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens who developed more efficient tools. The Upper Paleolithic saw specialized tools in Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Neolithic revolution started the domestication of plants and animals, leading humans to settle in villages and lessen their nomadic lifestyle, changing human attitudes towards the environment.

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    This document discusses the biological and cultural evolution of early humans from the Paleolithic period to modern humans. It explains key concepts like biocultural evolution, how biology enables culture and culture further influences biological evolution. It outlines the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods marked by Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens who developed more efficient tools. The Upper Paleolithic saw specialized tools in Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Neolithic revolution started the domestication of plants and animals, leading humans to settle in villages and lessen their nomadic lifestyle, changing human attitudes towards the environment.

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    This document discusses the biological and cultural evolution of early humans from the Paleolithic period to modern humans. It explains key concepts like biocultural evolution, how biology enables culture and culture further influences biological evolution. It outlines the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods marked by Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens who developed more efficient tools. The Upper Paleolithic saw specialized tools in Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Neolithic revolution started the domestication of plants and animals, leading humans to settle in villages and lessen their nomadic lifestyle, changing human attitudes towards the environment.

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    UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

    Human Biocultural and Social Evolution

    OBJECTIVES Macroevolution and the Formation of New


    ➢ Explain the biological and cultural Species
    evolution of early to modern human
    Macroevolution
    focuses on the formation of new species
    (speciation) and on the evolutionary
    relationship between groups of species.

    Species
    is often defined as a population capable of
    interbreeding, of producing viable, fertile
    offspring.

    Natural Selection
    is a process through which certain
    environmentally adapted biological features
    Essential Question are perpetuated at the expense of less
    Does evolutionary theory give us a total adaptive features.
    explanation to the mystery of our existence?
    BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION
    The mutual, interactive evolution of human
    biology and culture; the concept that biology
    makes culture possible and that developing
    culture further influences the direction of
    biological evolution; a basic concept in
    understanding the unique components of
    human evolution

    SOCIAL EVOLUTION
    Social evolution is the area of evolutionary
    biology that studies how social interactions,
    especially between individuals of the same
    species, arise, change and are maintained.
    UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
    Human Biocultural and Social Evolution
    C. Lastly, the Homo Sapiens sapiens lived
    PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (OLD STONE AGE) during the Upper Paleolithic Period. The
    blade, loner than a flake of rock, was the
    A. The Lower Paleolithic Period marked the most distinct tool developed during this
    existence of the Homo Erectus. The Homo period. A further increase in specialized tools
    Erectus sought efficiency and made tools for was also created during this period. The
    specific tasks. expansion of specialized tools reflected an
    increase in the population of the Homo
    During this period, the hand ax and other Sapiens sapiens and their exploration of new
    stone tools were created. Tools during this economic activities
    period were made by chipping off flakes from
    a core of rock, from different angles NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION (New Stone
    Age)

    It is a time of fundamental change; it was the


    period when food production started. The
    invention of food production occurred in
    several independent parts of the world under
    different periods.

    Food-producing habits began to change


    about 10, 000 years ago. At first, our
    ancestors had supplemented the food they
    produced with food they obtained from
    B. The Homo Sapiens lived during the hunting and gathering. However, one
    Middle Paleolithic Period. The Homo agriculture was developed, substantial
    Sapiens made more efficient tools, allowing changes in the lifestyle of humans took
    them to do anatomical labor much easier, place.
    such as prying, lifting, holding, and pulling.
    Further specialization of tools was also done It is a time when people had also started to
    by creating uniform flakes of rock and settle in specific areas they called villages so
    detailing each one for a particular task they can grow crops and raise animals,
    which, in turn, lessened nomadic practices.

    It also resulted to a change in human attitude


    toward the natural environment. People
    started wilfully changing their environment.
    Since they are now capable of producing
    food, they have also started to create tools
    using the available resources round them,
    such as wood, bamboo, and stone.

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