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Did you really mean to say that human intelligence began a millennium after the start of recorded history?
by evincarofautumn 15y ago
Did you really mean to say that human intelligence began a millennium after the start of recorded history?
- kamaal 15y agoI think by 'intelligence' he means intelligence required to make macro level impacts. Like traveling across oceans/seas, Living in mass organized colonies and cities, Math and things like that. That sort of intelligence only developed recently(When compared on a time scale). The earlier man had a pretty neat life, tending to food and rest and physiological activities all the time without having nothing much to worry about. Its only when the Philosophers and thinkers started originating, did mankind get some direction to work towards.
- batista 15y agoMore like it he meant to give an order of magnitude correct answer, and could not care less about give or take 2-3 millennia.
- evincarofautumn 15y agoBehavioural modernity is generally accepted as 50–40kya, and anatomical modernity 200kya. That’s more than a few millennia of difference. I was mainly curious as to whether there were a religious reason for such a comment.
- batista 15y agoOh, I think he meant technological modernity (well, not modernity but relative maturity).