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And a sample size of one.
by smilespray 3mo ago
And a sample size of one.
- vitally3643 3mo agoThat's what I said, yes.
- nobodyandproud 3mo agoWe have counter examples of human pods that never really achieved “civilization”. What’s missing that make them more akin to orcas or wolves?
- greiskul 3mo agoIt is possible it is just time. Modern humans are considered to have existed for 300k~ years. Civilizations are about 6k years old. So who knows. Maybe if you gave them an extra 10k years, they would have achived "civilization". It is not much for the scale of human existance. But it is longer than any of our civilizations has existed for.
- nobodyandproud 3mo agoFor humans, I wonder if population size and density is also a factor. That is, if there’s a critical mass and population size.
- asdff 3mo agoAnd makes sense with agriculture and civilization coming together. Agriculture improved the carrying capacity of an acre of land dramatically from what it was from foraging and hunting.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoWritten language ? Got it too easy ?
- nobodyandproud 3mo agoIt doesn’t have to be writing. At least one culture used ropes and knots.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoI think that (Incas) was more numerical record keeping rather than written language. What's special about written language (which some existing hunter-gatherer tribes still don't have), as opposed to spoken language, is that it allows cultural knowledge to be spread, stored, accumulated, and built upon.