That's how socio-cultural evolution took place !!

 

We live in society, learn from it, and can't even think of human presence on earth without a society.

 But how all this happened, do any of you ever think of this?👀

By the way have you all remember, that we have had talked of human evolution everything related to the biological changes in humans with the time. Obviously yes in-fact last post was all about that only😁 but, have you thought of human behavioral evolution that gradually formed society.

 let us see this today  😤😤 

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So, may I have your attention please. leaving these emojis apart, gonna start.

MAN is a social creature. This proverb is based on the idea of Darwinian theory of species genesis and evolution, which include humans, or more properly 'homo sapiens.'

The notion of man as a social animal depicts people as beings controlled by animal impulses and appetites, yet simultaneously interested in and motivated to establish communities and live communally. The development and growth of civilizations, as well as all intellectual activity, converge on the ultimate goal of satiating carnal urges, albeit on a different level.

BUT what socio-cultural evolution means to you?

As the name implies, socio-cultural evolution encompasses both social and cultural components. The term "culture" refers to a society's or social group's commonly recognized knowledge, whereas "social" refers to the set of norms that govern all social interactions in that society.  The two elements of social structure and cultural evolution, then, modify and expand a society.

OK! Just grasp this flow chart and you will be able to understand everything.👀😂

I am quite sure that it's confusing for most of you, isn't it? well, lemme simplify it for you.

So, the first revolution of human history marked with the beginning of tool making about  2.5 million years ago associating with new genus of hominids. Homo habilis made crude stone artifacts. These were named as Oldowan tools, after the site where these found for the first time ,that is  at Olduvai Gorge in Africa. These tools are pieces of rocks that have been sharpened on one side by flaking to create crude choppers and scrapers. These basic tools are linked to the first evidence of structured human life in the form of organized slaughtering sites, indicating an increasing emphasis on hunting rather than gathering.

With the coming of these species, the change in the body size and cranium capacity enhanced cognitive ability to supervise the increased number of interpersonal dyads paralleled the rise in group size. It also meant more grooming time. As a result, the amount of time individuals can afford to spend grooming each other rather than engaging in other necessary behaviours like resting, eating, courting, and mating inherently limits group size, implying that additional social processes must have come into play to preserve bonds. For about 1 million years, the Oldowan era lasted. There is no indication of any usage of language or symbolic culture. These species remained confined within Africa only.

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The development of a new species and a new technology around 1.5 million years ago signified the rise of a new sort of society. Homo erectus was the species, while Acheulean tool culture was the technology. Sexual dimorphism was minimized, and the size of Homo erectus became more consistent. Full shoulder rotation vanished anatomically, suggesting the end of arboreal existence. Both teeth and guts grew smaller, indicating that meat has become more nutritionally important. With the arrival of Homo erectus, we have signs of controlled fire usage and the establishment of seasonal base camps, implying the beginnings of a nomadic lifestyle. 

some of the types of tools from different time periods 

Unlike the Oldowan culture's primitive stone choppers, the Acheulean toolkit demonstrated significant manual ability. Hand axes, cleavers, and knives with sharper and more effective cutting surfaces are now available, as are symmetrically designed, precisely crafted hand axes, cleavers, and knives. The increasing brain capacity of Homo erectus allowed for another increase in group size, from 90 to 120 people. Despite its enhanced encephalization, evidence shows that Homo erectus' intellect was nonetheless pre-linguistic. Around 1 million years ago, Homo erectus migrated from Africa to the southern parts of Asia and Europe, resulting in the first large increase in human population.

Around 300,000 new specie emerged, with new tool kit  and other more evolved form of socially cognitive abilities, the new species were Neanderthalensis. They had more advanced tool kit that is Mousterian tools, which had flint or stone blades attached to wood or bone handles. We start to see stone hearths and postholes with the Neanderthals, indicating the construction of permanent dwellings. With the advent of semipermanent settlements of 120 to 160 people, social organization began to shift away from small bands divided by age and sex and toward bigger collectives like kin-based clans.

early human migration to different continents

Around 150,000 years ago, fully developed human beings appeared in Africa and quickly spread outward to inhabit every corner of the earth. With the entire enlargement of the frontal lobes in Homo sapiens, the brain achieved its current size and structure, allowing for the emergence of a new and revolutionary civilization. Human cognitive capability seems to have achieved a point of dynamism and flexibility, allowing it to continue to create adaptations indefinitely. Hooks, needles, awls, and harpoons were among the new and more delicate tools that Homo sapiens began to create from bone and antler. They made ropes from of fibres. built permanent shelters that featured not only hearths, but also lights and kilns. They devised spear throwers, bows, and arrows to enable for effective hunting from afar, reducing personal safety hazards.

Speech emerged sometime after Homo sapiens appeared, giving humans a large verbal memory and new cognitive and analytical abilities.

😓😓so it seems to be that they were non-vegetarians, of-course, as till this time they were hunter gatherers. 

 This was only conceivable between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, with the establishment of the first permanent settlements, which were made possible by agricultural cultivation and animal husbandry. Humans have developed a food surplus for the first time. The stockpiling of food in excess of one day's needs allowed for a dramatic acceleration of human population growth, higher population densities, and the development of a new, albeit small, class of individuals who did not have to generate food for their own survival. This period sometimes characterized by the scholars as Neolithic Revolution.

This is how a Neolithic society might had looked like 

Through direct invasion, demographic absorption, or ecological marginalization, agrarianism displaced hunting and gathering as a way of life. thus moving toward settled life with emergence of greatest civilizations in later period.

So dear readers, without going into greater details, that's all for today. I hope the non-history people have enjoyed more than our dear fellow historian buddies, as the topic is new for you.😇😇

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