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Anon is an anthropologist (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (14 children)

The answer is probably language. Before advanced language was developed, there wasn't a good way to pass along any knowledge that was gained by an individual.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    And storage / dissemination of that language.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thats why the fediverse is the next step in evolution.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    I thought it was because proper farming.

    Like being able to support larger groups of people, where individuals could specialize in other things than hunting, gathering and whatever else was keeping the early humans busy.

    On the other hand I've heard we've been possibly farming long before 10,000 BCE.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Language is much older than just 10k years. There's a few reasons to think that language might have developed with erectus, which could make language 10x older than the 'human specie', according to anon.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That's why i said advanced language. Lots of animals have language. Crows have language

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Usually the distinction is between "advanced communication" which some animals display, and "language", which only humans have.

    Whether you want to call it language or advanced language, what we do today is way older than 10k years. There are stories that have been dated to 100k and if the arguments about erectus are correct, then what you call advanced language is probably 2m+ years old.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The answer is agriculture, which lowered the standard of living and health of the individual, but sustained more people, allowed for specialization, permanent settlement and building large structures.

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