| S.T.A.G.E. said: I will look up some of that stuff when I come back. ;) As for the advancement of society happend around a range of 4000 years starting in Asia (and the lack of belief in evolution). The most powerful religions which still have a hold on us today are in Asia. Before that was the hold of evolution took millions of years and thousands (for humans) of years to take hold. Those were prehistoric times though. It's just like the Native Americans, which some say after the great migration from Sibera, going through mixture and evolution before following the wooly mammoth through the bering straight (ice bridge connecitng Russia and Alaska) and thats how they reached America. What we know as humans (ourselves) or homosapien sapien, have only had an evolution of technology. The evolution of ideas, science, culture, laws (moral code), religion, technology and, etc are the reason why we are where we are today, but people today could've just as easily existed 4000 years ago since there was no evolutionary change since we became what we are currently. |
This is absolutely factually wrong.
Evolution is on-going, though diminishing with modern man because we are less isolated societies today.
Every modern race of man is an example of evolution. We all evolved from a similar (essentially the same) DNA out of Africa, which evolved as groups migrated and became isolated in communities. Those small groups developed unique genetic material creating our divergent races.
EDIT: Not sure if I even have time to address the first paragraph, but also factually wrong.
Human society actually began advancing conservatively 20,000 years ago. While modern writing began around 4,000 years ago, the greatest advancements in human society happened long before that. 20,000 years ago we were using modern fishing techniques, such as nets and traps to catch fish. We began farming, domestication of animals, and animanl husbandry too. Arguably, without farming and herding, we never could have developed into our modern society. Agriculture and animal husbandry allowed man to subsist on the food he created, rather than the food he found or hunted for. It meant societies could stay in one place, rather than trying to follow food sources (hence our reason for migrations out of Africa), that allowed societies to build up rather than die-off. Larger families were necessary to cultivate fields and keep animals, rather than a burden while travling from place to place. Because of this, it became even more important for those socieities to share and retain learned experiences.
4,000 years ago we had an explosion of understanding, granted. However, we never would have gotten to that point had we not first developed our ability to cultivate food, or domesticate, herd, and raise animals. Our need for understanding the world around us would likely never have developed, migrating hunter/gathering people don't need to understand their environment they just need to react to it. You wouldn't have had the great prehistoric societies like Egypt, Greece, Rome, or Persia. It's unlikely that you would have ever had metalurgy, because people migrating with herds don't have time to think about what they could do with a shiny piece of metal they found in their fire pit. They would have moved on, hence why we don't see metalurgy until about 15,000 BC. Modern man existed for tens of thousands of years before this, however it wasn't until cultivation and animal husbandry that our modern era, even if pre-historic, began. The Neolithic era is when we really developed as a species, society, and culture. Listen to the native American legends that are passed down, and those are the stories passed down often from Neolithic times.
Modern religion began 4,000 years ago, but my apologies, modern man really began to explode on the scene (earth) about 20,000 years ago.
