Timeline for If modern human existed for hundreds of thousands years why was writing invented only some 7000-9000 years ago?
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 9:10 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 2:58 | comment | added | user2848 | Biology also indicates that mental abilities of humans changed little over at least the last 100000 years. Wait, what? What gives you the idea that biology can tell us such a thing? We have absolutely no scientific tools for testing such a hypothesis. | |
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 15:06 | comment | added | TheHonRose | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because hypothetical questions about history are virtually impossible to answer. | |
| Jun 16, 2014 at 2:51 | answer | added | Thorsten S. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 20:35 | vote | accept | Anixx | ||
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| S Apr 30, 2012 at 14:25 | history | suggested | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2012 at 13:36 | answer | added | T.E.D.♦ | timeline score: 36 | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 8:24 | comment | added | Anixx | Also if the mutation happened only so recently, we would have a certain percent of people who could not write. There was no bottleneck for ability to write because many nations had no writing up to modern times (but all their members can write well if properly taught). | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 8:19 | comment | added | Anixx | Note that currently all nations and races can write, even those who were in no contact for more than 10000 years. A mutation could not spread to the people all over the world (notice that there are ancient mutations that still did not spread over one continent, Europe). | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 7:19 | comment | added | Opt | @Russell: Umm...Mutations do happen all the time and successful ones propagate as species that have them have a survival advantage. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Also while there're definitely structures in the human brain that allow something like writing to happen, the OP already mentioned that there was little change in the brain in the past 100K years. Apart from that, there's little reason to think that there's a specific gene that controls whether a person can write or not. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 6:20 | comment | added | Russell | There are two theories on how evolution works; one is that changes happen over a long period of time, a mutation occurs, the mutation doesn't kill the creature, but instead helps it, so the mutation gets passed on, and after 100000 years, the entire species has the mutation. The other theory is that something in the environment forces a many random mutations in the species, and the ones that worked get passed on. I'm not an expert in the period you are talking about, but, I'd guess that something changed in the environment and caused a mutation in the human brain to allow writing. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 2:13 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/196784299368923136 | ||
| Apr 29, 2012 at 22:52 | comment | added | jfrankcarr | This article might be of some help: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 22:14 | answer | added | Opt | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 22:00 | history | edited | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2012 at 21:37 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |