LOOKING BACK AT HUMAN BIO-
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL
EVOLUTION
Warren Dave A. Malinog
WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
• is a natural process of biological changes occurring in a
population across generations (Banaag, 2012)
• It helps us identify and analyze man’s physiological
development which is important in his subsistence
• the evolution of man became an important concern in the
emergence of different societies.
WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
All of the human’s social drives developed long
before he developed intellectually. They therefore,
instinctive. Such instinct a mother-love,
compassion, cooperation, curiosity, inventiveness
and competitiveness are ancient and embedded in
the human. They were all necessary for the survival
of the human and pre-human (www.onelife.com).
Hence, man’s progression and characteristics are
essential in understanding the capability for
ARRANGE: THE HUMAN EVOLUTION
1. Australopithecus
2. Homo Sapiens
3. Homo Sapiens Sapiens
4. Homo Erectus
5. Homo Habilis
6. Hominids
THE BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL
EVOLUTION
THE HOMINIDS
• According to Ember (2002),
one of the most controversial
aspects of Darwin’s theory,
suggest that one species
could evolve into another
species.
• It is one of the earliest
members of the primate
family hominid, containing
humans, their immediate
ancestors, close extinct
relatives.
AUSTRALOPITHECU
S
The first definite Hominid, their
teeth share basic hominid
characteristic of small canine,
flat and thickly enameled
molars and a parabolic dental
arch, and there is ambiguous
evidence that even the earliest
australopithecines were bipedal.
Bipedal refers to using two feet
in moving.
HOMO HABILIS
The Homo Habilis Is known
from Tanzania, Kenya and
South Africa. Species with a
brain -broca’s area which is
associated with speech in
modern humans and was the
first to make stone tools. The
ability to make and use tools is
unique quality to humans such
that the species is recognized
to be the first true human. The
specie names mean “Handy
Man”. Lived about 2.4 to 1.4
HOMO
ERECTUS
The species names
“Upright Man” with body
proportion similar to that
modern humans. Lived 1.89
to 143,000 years ago;
adapted to hot climates and
most spread in Africa and
Asia. They were the first
hunters with improvised
tools such as axes and
HOMO SAPIENS
The Homo Sapiens
The species name
means “Wise Man”
that appeared form
200,000 years ago.
The present human
race belongs to this
species.
HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS
• Subspecies known as Cro-Magnon
characterized to be anatomically
modern humans and lived in the
last Ice age of Europe 40,000 to
10,000 years ago.
• They were the first to produce
art in in cave paintings and
crafting decorated tools and
accessories.
SIMPLE DIFFERENTIATION OF CULTURAL
EVOLUTION
PALEOLITHIC AGE NEOLITHIC AGE
Unpolished stone implements Polished stone tools
Hunting and gathering Domestication of plants and
Nomadic way of living animals
Living in permanent places
Early societies started to emerge as a result of
man’s interaction with his environment. Every
society is organized in such a way that there will
be rules of conduct, customs, traditions, folkways
and mores, and expectations to ensure
appropriate behavior among members (Palispis,
2007 p.254).
QUIZ
1. They were the first to produce fire
2. They were the first to produce art
3. They were bipedal
4. They were known as the handy man
5-10 Enumerate the human evolution in order
