About early man

[Stu Pidasso]

Its accepted that humans have been around for 200,000 years. The vast majority of our advancement occurred in the last 10,000 years with barely any coming during that first 190,000 years.

I've heard it said that early man was so busy hunting and gathering that he did not have any time to do the necessary thought required to develope things. I think thats a bunch of bunk.

Early humans had plenty of time to think. The task of hunting and gathering has long moments of time that can best be described as "mundane". It doesn't take a lot of "creative brain power" to do munadane tasks. In my experience it seems the brain finds ways to ultilize its "creative brain power" during these mundane task. If you've ever daydreamed its in your experience too.

The other night I was watching a show about how a couple of scientist were using viruses collected from a hotspring to produce hydrogen. They were stripping out all the RNA from the viral protien shell and then they used that empty protien shell to encapsulated little bits of metal. The next day while driving home from Costco, I didn't think much about driving. I didn't think much about installing the car battery I just bought. What I was thinking about is what other uses little bits of metal encapsulated in protein might have.

If I can use my creative brain power while doing a complex, but mundane task such as driving a car, surely a human who lived 150,000 years ago would be having equally creative thoughts while trekking accross the country following a herd of mamoths.

There must be some other reasons why early humans didn't advance much. It certainly wasn't because they didn't have time to "think things up"

Stu