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DESCRIPTION:HOW DID WE GET HERE?\n \nOur ancestors sprang from populations in 
 sub-Saharan Africa that existed between about 100 and 250 thousand years 
 ago. Rapid evolution produced Homo sapiens from Homo erectus. Our 
 technology exploded during this evolutionary transition, with several 
 apparent African 'firsts' and subsequent spreads of technology into 
 Eurasia. We became human in Africa, and the African 'firsts' don't stop 
 with the initial spread of some Homo sapiens into Eurasia.\n\nHumans 
 commonly make the perceptual error of equating the knowledge products of a 
 society with the individual intellectual capacities of that society's 
 members, but this assumption rests on weathered pillars of salt. Sure, 
 knowledge tends to be produced by smart people, but a society's knowledge 
 production relies in every sense on that society's economy, which is 
 historically related to agricultural viability. Agriculture emerges as a 
 result of climate, endemic species, and other ecological factors, not brain 
 power. Civilization and its material and intellectual products are thus not 
 good indicators of 'intelligence.' They are based on geographic luck and 
 the fickle, dramatic course of history.\n \nDr. Yonatan Sahle, postdoctoral 
 scholar at UC Berkeley's Human Evolution Research Center, has recovered the 
 earliest projectile points in the world. Come hear him explain what they 
 tell us about our intellectual origins ... and grapple with the challenges 
 they pose to our understanding of human evolution.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/26/18749813.php
SUMMARY:African Origins of Human Intelligence
LOCATION:University Theater, CSU East Bay\n25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard\nHayward, CA 
 94542\n510-885-3000\nhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/26/18749813.php
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