The Importance Of Culture On Humans Evolving

Humans Evolving Culture in physical anthropology is known as the study of human cultures, beliefs, values, ideas, and other human behavior patterns. Culture is also known as everything we have, think, and do. Culture has an influence on human evolution by adaptation due to the way humans and other living organisms adjust to new conditions and new challenges that life brings to them. However, culture also has an influence on human evolution by natural selection. Culture influences natural selection because of the way that natural selection focuses on survival and reproduction. Meaning that those with better advantageous will have a higher chance to produce more offspring. Culture has been around for many years now. From the beginning of the …show more content…
erectus populations. They were found in Africa, Asia, and in Europe. As these species were said to have looked differently in Europe, Asia, and Africa, they still had the same characteristic traits and survived the same way. The only difference for them was that their face structure was different and some of them had larger teeth than others. Or their skulls were shaped differently. As H. sapiens used much more of their tools to process food, they were nearly similar to the H. erectus. Only that H. sapiens used their front teeth as a tool. These species were fishers and would fish for their resources for food. Burial of the dead was a symbolism that modern humans used and continue to use. Earlier H. sapiens were important because they have the earliest evidence of modern people’s characteristics. Then after they disappeared there was an extinction of modern Homo sapiens. The earlier H. sapiens and modern H. sapiens were no different. The modern H. sapiens still continued to fish as part of their diet (pg. 328, Larsen). Their behaviors were the same, modern humans only had different ways of hunting for food and their use of tools were used for the same …show more content…
And will continue to change. There are many of the different ways that we humans have lived off of. From the beginning of time there was not much to life, as culture has played a role it continues to go back in circles. Which is what has happened throughout the years. In the beginning of life there wasn’t as much hunting, or tools being used. Neither was there much about symbolism being used. Now we take a look back and see that hunting began to be a big issue in life, then it stopped again because many humans decided to live healthier. So now that we take a look to the latest species, meaning us, there is a lot of tool usage, hunting, fishing, use of fire, and different languages all over the world. Which the use of all of this has changed from the beginning of life until now, and it is sure to change as the years pass