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Necessity Was the Mother of Human Cultural Invention

2024-04-24

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The unique intellectual capabilities of Homo sapiens are often attributed to positive, physical evolutionary developments such as increased cranial capacity, upright posture, dexterous hands and an articulate oropharynx, despite the occurrence of similar features in other species that have not developed such capabilities. Humans are also unique, however, in lacking or ignoring instincts that define the social stru...

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Literature Corpus work: fc8bb8f9-e3dd-5a93-9d84-f0a4ed6c1e9a
DOI: 10.32388/41oilt.2

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