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