06-25-2011, 12:05 PM
"For about 100 000 years, there were people who looked like us, but who acted on the basis of cognitive structures in which we would only partially recognise ourselves and which we do not define today as modern behaviour...
"...The technology led to increased social interaction within and across the generations... This social learning contributed to the subsequent development of early modern humans' cognitive ability to express symbolism and abstract thoughts through their material culture, for example in the form of decorated objects."
One might say that they had dual-activated, 2D-3D bodies for a time.
"...The technology led to increased social interaction within and across the generations... This social learning contributed to the subsequent development of early modern humans' cognitive ability to express symbolism and abstract thoughts through their material culture, for example in the form of decorated objects."
One might say that they had dual-activated, 2D-3D bodies for a time.