30 Phil, Chapter 1 Touchstone 4: Cultural Transmission.
Cultural transmission, perhaps more than any other trait, sets humans apart from other animals. It’s the ability to pass behaviors, traditions, and knowledge to the next generation. Cultural transmission has likely been a feature of our direct-line hominin mind for millions of years. Returning to what we have in common with chimps, both species possess this ability.
In the shadowed forests of the Late Carboniferous, long before mammals, birds, or even dinosaurs,
In the dense, humid forests of the Late Triassic, long before mammals ruled the night,
One of the earliest known true dinosaurs in the Dinosauria order is Eoraptor lunensis. From
I’m taking this time to catch up with the paired videos for recent WWB editions, and to restructure the WWB into seasions of 10 weeks: four 1-Minute Hot Topics. Each week featureing a tidbit in science, philosophy, critical, thinking, and history. Follow the TST YouTube channel to catch all new videos. –Mike
1START: Science >
3Critical Thinking >
4History!
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30 Philosophers: A New Look at Timeless Ideas
