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From reading popular evolutionary science, if I recall, it's the dates of the first cave drawings or other evidence of symbolic thinking like scratch marks on b
by proc0 3y ago
From reading popular evolutionary science, if I recall, it's the dates of the first cave drawings or other evidence of symbolic thinking like scratch marks on bones to count something. These point to 20-40K years ago.
- andsoitis 3y agoWe have evidence that humans used symbols for self-expression at least 72,000 years ago: https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/humans/symbolic-thinking https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/humans/symbolic-thinking
- Fricken 3y agoEvidence regularly turns up that pushes back the dates for how long our ancestors have been doing the special things that make us human.