Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

(Rodrigo GrandaB_hQJo) #1

Mankind came to become a civilization to live through acts of cruelty.


But this way of life, with the ability to use their upper limbs to carry


out a brutal and more often than not violent act, stimulated their sense


of satisfaction and perhaps happiness. This idealization of primitive


man is thanks to the harshness of his basic conditions such as warmth


and cooking. For some, it was a chance fire that provided them with a


campfire, to demonstrate to them the quality of shedding the skin and


using it in a rudimentary and simple way, so that they learned to


preserve the warmth of the fire.


Violence developed their instinct for technology. It led them to


perfect the spear and the hand axe, so that by wearing what nature


offered them, they were encouraged to face all challenges and threats.


Perhaps 1 % of the history of technology (up to the present day) is the


longest period in the life of mankind. According to archaeologists,


anthropologists, geneticists and other experts, we would have a


technological development of about 100 , 000 to 25 , 000 years ago


between arrowheads, needles and harpoons. Stone points appeared in


that time interval. Spears were refined to be more durable as well as


the control and use of fire.


Perhaps only a few years of our existence, when we


occasionally managed to establish groups of 50 people or less to live


as wanderers. Where rudimentary tools helped us to live longer.


Humans have evolved according to findings in Africa (until proven


otherwise) since about 2 million years ago. The "genus Homo"


─The evolution of destruction and the use of death for eternal life

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