Human Biocultural and Social Evolution
Human Biocultural and Social Evolution
Human Biocultural and Social Evolution
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)