Do our moral convictions connect in a reasonable way with what
we think about human origins?
According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way
they think about human origins.
Serrallonga spent a couple of years continuing with excavations in the north of Spain and
thinking about human origins before his first travel opportunity to Africa arose.
First of all, note that many of the items in this list are completely irrelevant to modern
thinking about human origins (and some of them were never relevant).
Not exact matches
But with insight into retrospective aetiology based on the present situation, much could be cleared up in the vivid representation of the inferred state of man which causes difficulties in view of the way we inevitably
think today
about human origins.
Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in the Archaeology of
Human Origin at the University of York, said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't
think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings
about seeing their loved ones suffering.»
A shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know
about the
origin of art and complex
human thought
«[But] I also
think it's a big stretch to infer something
about the
origins of
human male aggression towards women.»