Reader: Sizing Up Human Intelligence
What are the difficulties of "Fishing for Termites? Why can't an anthropologist get it right? Reflect on the following to help you: (The first segment has been taken from Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors while the second segment has been taken from Richard Leakey's new book Origin's Reconsidered.)
SEGMENT TWO (Pages 187-199) and (Page 169)
Consider the implications of the following reading to think about the implications of using stone tools, even those made by early hominids over 1.0 million years ago. The following readings are taken from Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth (1993). This reading (pages 166-170) should provide you with some sense of what Archaeologists are learning about not only the use of "simple" stone tools but also about the makers and users of those tools.
(Pages 102-107) WHO WERE THE FIRST TOOL MAKERS 2.5 MYA?
(Pages 133-142) ARTIFACTS AS REFLECTIONS OF INTELLIGENCE
We need to ask ourselves about the implications of a larger brain. Why did hominids develop larger and larger brain sizes? What did this do for us? We have already considered the radiator effect in cooling a brain. We also have considered the implications of stone tools.
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