“In your judgement does the evidence presented on your topic suffice to demonstrate that Homo erectus had the ability in question?
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One of the major issues the movie kept hitting on was the evolution of human behavior with Homo erectus. Behavior, particularly group behavior, is culture. Technically, that kind of behavior includes stuff like the new hunting style, but there was a lot of focus on close person-to-person interactions, like the link between children and their mothers. However, being an archaeologist, I want to set that aside for something for which there is actual material evidence. This discussion is going to be about how close Homo erectus is to some of those traits that "define" modern humans. In this case, you can pick from one of three topics – Cooking, Language (and Tool-Making), and Art. Cooking Language (& Tool-Making) Earliest Art? Your answer needs to have the topic (Cooking, Language, Art) at the top before you start the rest of the text. Then you need to come down on one side or the other of this question: "In your judgment, does the evidence presented on your topic suffice to demonstrate that Homo erectus had the ability in question?" Obviously, I'm asking whether they have the ability to the same degree as modern humans. The question is really, do you see that it's there AT ALL. Or if it's started but is "X" far from what we have. Or, be bold, and make the case that the matter of degree isn't that far and that what we have is basically a wildly elaborated form of the basics already mastered by our distant ancestors.
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