EURON KRASNIQI ProCredit Regional Academy – Veles 2016
Essay:
Reflect upon the evolution of human social relationships as discussed over this block, with regard to intergroup organisation, labour division, bonding, reproduction and sexual relationships. Also, take a position on the explanatory power of the Social Brain Hypothesis.
Throughout the evolutionary process, from the first apes till the emerge of homo sapiens, the world as we know it has encountered ever-lasting changes. The time to time appearance of glacial and interglacial periods has had its effect in our primates, testing their compatibility with the changing environments and making sure that only the fittest survive. But what did it mean to be the fittest? Did it mean that you have to be the most muscular, the strongest out of all? Actually, it did not mean any of that; it meant that you are fit …show more content…
Looking at different homo families, especially their group size and cranium capacity, give us the needed evidence to approve the direct correlation between group size and brain increase. Coping with a bigger group meant that you had to have higher cognitive abilities, possible only with bigger brain size and are very important having in mind that they gave they were the steps on reaching the reproduction needed to pass on their genes. But, in order to reproduce and be at the top positions of reproduction chain, managing time was important. Being more efficient on traveling, resting and feeding, gave higher possibilities on bonding that leads to better opportunities to reproduce. Comparing with the other hominids, homo sapiens had developed a very complex bonding strategy, using now language as their ultimate killing weapon, thus being the most efficient ‘’Time Budget’’
Essay:
Reflect upon the evolution of human social relationships as discussed over this block, with regard to intergroup organisation, labour division, bonding, reproduction and sexual relationships. Also, take a position on the explanatory power of the Social Brain Hypothesis.
Throughout the evolutionary process, from the first apes till the emerge of homo sapiens, the world as we know it has encountered ever-lasting changes. The time to time appearance of glacial and interglacial periods has had its effect in our primates, testing their compatibility with the changing environments and making sure that only the fittest survive. But what did it mean to be the fittest? Did it mean that you have to be the most muscular, the strongest out of all? Actually, it did not mean any of that; it meant that you are fit …show more content…
Looking at different homo families, especially their group size and cranium capacity, give us the needed evidence to approve the direct correlation between group size and brain increase. Coping with a bigger group meant that you had to have higher cognitive abilities, possible only with bigger brain size and are very important having in mind that they gave they were the steps on reaching the reproduction needed to pass on their genes. But, in order to reproduce and be at the top positions of reproduction chain, managing time was important. Being more efficient on traveling, resting and feeding, gave higher possibilities on bonding that leads to better opportunities to reproduce. Comparing with the other hominids, homo sapiens had developed a very complex bonding strategy, using now language as their ultimate killing weapon, thus being the most efficient ‘’Time Budget’’