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Origins and Development of Human Society; Where
Did We Come From?
Who Early Humans Were and What We Still Share
with Them

Anthropologists have made reasonably good inroads in
learning about how the human race has developed.
Although I sense that we still have much to learn, I feel that
at this point we can at least form some educated theories
about how we got this far without wiping ourselves off the
face off the planet.

Early hominids, by most current reckoning, were a
primitive lot. There were apparently a number of kinds of
them, very likely always looking to survive, proliferate and
gain territory and resources. By all accounts, it wasn't a
particularly pretty picture. You can just imagine tribes and
groups of them, fiercely defending their shelter, food
sources, and womenfolk. I can only imagine how crazy it
might have been with all the fighting and bloodshed, and
this apparently went on for many, many years, perhaps
cementing our earliest urges and social mores deep within
our psyches for millennia to come.

So how long do these urges stay in our collective brain
patterns? Simple observation shows that it would seem that
they run very deep and are not so easy to free ourselves
from, as so many of our actions still seem to be controlled
by the compulsions and mores that would have dictated a
society overwhelmed with the urge and need to simply
survive at all costs. We will see many examples of this in
the pages to come.

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