H. Sapiens: An Argumentative Analysis

For many years, people have wondered how modern humans came to dominate the earth. Some hypotheses include larger brains, new technology, and climate change as each relates to human strength, but none of these tell the full story. The domination of the world that began in Africa was a process and requires further investigation. Slowly, it came be revealed little by little that one major driving force behind such competence was the social behavior that individuals, regardless of relation, should work in cooperation. This seems to have led to the progressive development of new technology – specifically, new advanced weapons. Weapons allowed our ancestors to defend themselves and thus dominate the less-developed ancestral groups, leading to the
With the arrival of humans came an increase in ecosystem destruction, species extermination, and environment alterations that were made to fit the purposes and desires of the H. sapien groups. Again, natural selection came back into play. Collaborative and competitive skills are thought to be a large contributor to H. sapiens rise and domination of the world. Termed as “hyperprosociality” by University of California, Davis anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, it seems to be trait that is genetically encoded rather than learned. The capacity at which modern humans possess such a trait is suspected to be of a much different caliber than in other species. This leads to the assumption that modern humans have relied heavily on it in order to demonstrate domination in the way that they have all this time. This trait seems to have arisen due to times of being in conflict, according to a Santa Fe Institute economist by the name of Sam Bowles. He believes that the greater the amount of prosocial people in a group, the greater the level of collaboration’s effectiveness. This is then passed down from generation to generation, causing a spread of
This entire mentality has progressed throughout the believed course of evolution to sculpt the mind of the modern human. Another development that matured the mind of the modern human began with H. sapiens quest for food, eventually leading to the discovery of shellfish and other marine life and its value as a more reliable nutritive source. Unfortunately, the use of resources on marine coasts led to an outbreak of war for a time. This was largely due to humans becoming very