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The Human Condition

Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects ((DIPR))

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Any thoughtful person will, upon reflection, arrive at the opinion that humans became human not through natural processes that modified their skeletal structures, but by processes that enabled them to develop culture, cognition, and technology on a scale significantly separating humans from all other primates in those areas. Pleistocene archeologists, on the other hand, have instead developed models that define stone tools or their assemblages as “culture.” Apart from the inherent inability to test this taxonomy, tools do not define cultures, as we have noted. Therefore, the “cultural sequence” archeology has given us of the Pleistocene should not be expected to be a sequence of real cultures. Similarly, the history of the somatic evolution of hominins is fascinating, but it does not adequately define the process of humanization, to which changes in skeletal details are only peripheral. Yet the efforts to learn about the cognitive, neurological, and cultural evolution of hominins have so far not been of adequate depth, and the processes involved in it have not been clarified.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error (Brecht 1980: sc. 9).

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Bednarik, R.G. (2011). The Hard Evidence. In: The Human Condition. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9353-3_3

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