This episode begins our discussion of human origins and evolution. Backtracking to 66 million years ago, we begin with the history of the primates and lead into the evolution of the hominins (the human lineage) up to 1.2 million years ago. Special topics include the beginnings of bipedal locomotion in apes, the development of stone tool technologies, the use and creation of fire, endurance running, and what we know about the beginnings of language and speech.
Transcript: https://riverofhistory.tumblr.com/post/183356510726/episode-7-first-rank
Links and References Mentioned:
Linnaeus Quote (English Translation): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.origins/OaB6xyqyOu0
Traits of Anthropoid Primates: https://www.pnas.org/content/107/11/4797.full
"Human Nature" and Responses: https://webpages.uncc.edu/~jmarks/pubs/offhumannature.pdf
The Social Brain Hypothesis: http://oxfordre.com/psychology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.001.0001/acrefore-9780190236557-e-44
Plato & Diogenes: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/animals/miscellany/plato-and-diogenes-debate-featherless-bipeds
Proposed Hominin Relationships: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0943
Diversity and Age of Hominins: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.22902
Humans Among the Primates: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/why-humans-are-important-to-studies-of-primate-diversity/
The Domestication of Fire: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/neanderthal-fire/
The Earliest Midwives: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-we-do-it/201405/why-midwives-are-needed
