Where did the creativity to build the tools come from in the first place?

 

Where did the creativity to build the tools come from in the first place?

There was no first place. That is the central insight and advance of evolutionary theory.

 

The transition from purpose modified natural objects of increasing utility and socially bequeathed form (something chimps, parrots, dolphins, and corvids can create, even if birds nests and octopus houses don't count) - to the making of blanks, the creation of an unnatural object whose utility is in the ease with which it can be further used or modified in various ways to make a tool it does not itself resemble, appears to have taken something like one million years. The increase in capability necessary was very slow, in human terms, and the presumption pending evidence would be that it was patchy and proceeded by fits and starts.

What about Geniuses that are born?

Where did the creativity to build the tools come from in the first place?

a) The mutation that begot higher intelligence

 

b) The sudden increase in brain size some 1.5 - 3 million years ago

a) The mutation that begot higher intelligence

 

b) The sudden increase in brain size some 1.5 - 3 million years ago

a) scientific evidence that certain DNA makes someone smart?

 

b) sudden? actual neurogenesis evidence?

 

What about Geniuses that are born?

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a) scientific evidence that certain DNA makes someone smart?

Make your point - what are you talking about? Modern humans, the evolution of creativity in homimids, the evolution of intelligence in hominids, the genetic basis of all this, what?

Make your point - what are you talking about? Modern humans, the evolution of creativity in homimids, the evolution of intelligence in hominids, the genetic basis of all this, what?

My posts were snipped from another thread, moved here and a phony title was added to the thread.

 

Just ignore the thread.

My posts were snipped from another thread, moved here and a phony title was added to the thread.

 

Just ignore the thread.

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