The Equation of Stone Tools and Human Intelligence Evolution
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SummaryStone tools are often the glorified paradigm for anthropological assumptions about human intelligence evolution. Their concrete and quantifiable linkages to Paleolithic realities are what make stone tools such a pivotal addition to anthropology’s understanding of evolution. The shifts in the archeological records that are characterized by stone tools represent how human intelligence evolution is a function of a congruence of ecological factors. Although some anthropologists take a very specific, pure, and neurological approach to understanding stone tool evolution, this parochial perspective can limit the insight available from the broader context of stone tool and intellectual progression. Human intelligence evolution is a multidimensional process that reaches far beyond the scope of the individual, and the archeological record, through its ability to encompass all dynamics of evolutionary ecology, provides an effective framework for analyzing developments in human intelligence.
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- Stone tool use development is one of the clearest indicators for demonstrating our evolutionary divergence from other species
- An appropriate framework for understanding tool development inferences
- Stone tools automatically imply a transaction
- The clear environmental influence on stone tool
- Stone tool development represents manifestation of human intelligence and its evolutionary course
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