Human evolution theory
An etiology of neuropsychological disorders such as autism and dyslexia, and the origin of left handedness.
Human Evolution Darwin ... Select Bibliography Section II Hominid Evolution In chimpanzee society, a child would not know who his father was, the females having multiple partners. Early human culture would also have been characterized by the females choosing procreation partners at their own discretion, not an unlikely scenario considering that this is not an uncommon human aboriginal social constellation. A male often forms his allegiance with the next generation, not through his own progeny, but through his sister's. Jane Goodall informs us that in chimpanzee society the bonds of intimacy move through the mother (Goodall, ). It is siblings that form the closest bonds after the bond of mother with child. Lewis Henry Morgan ( ) made clear with his kinship studies that human societies up to historic times often operated with the males raising or mentoring their sister's sons, it being unclear to males who their own progeny were in societies with promiscuous social structures. "It is very difficult to decide how far changed conditions, such as of climate, food, etc., have acted in a definite manner. There is reason to believe that in the course of time the effects have been greater than can be proved by clear evidence." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 6th addition, 1872, p. 139. (referring to the inheritance of acquired characteristics) | |
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