PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Joel Osteen, Homo Sapiens, Cultural Psychology
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Methods in cultural psychology: the problem is that we keep assuming that there is a point at which we became human. This is about as unlikely as there being a precise wavelength at which the color spectrum turns from orange into red. The typical proposition of how this happened is that of a mental different. First, recent archeological research finds a new species of homo has mixed features of higher order apes. Calling it homo nadeli . didn(cid:495)t just suddenly become (cid:498)homo sapiens(cid:499) and begin to look and act like us (cid:523)modern humans(cid:524). )t isn(cid:495)t a linearly sapiens, while mixing genes with others earlier versions of (cid:498)us(cid:499) growing tree, but rather a weed-like bush that can grow irradically. It happened in a messy and tangential sort of way over millions of years. Our countries are very different, not just in culture and mentality but also in economic terms.
