Book contents
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Sources and Terminology
- How Do We Thrive?
- 1 Who Are the Architects of Wakanda?
- 2 What Happened at Blombos in 70,000 BCE?
- 3 Why Are the Danes So Individualistic?
- 4 Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?
- 5 How Did Joseph and His Eleven Brothers Solve the Three Economic Problems?
- 6 What Do Charlemagne and King Zwelithini Have in Common?
- 7 Why Do Indians Have Dowry and Africans Lobola?
- 8 Who Was the Richest Man Ever to Live?
- 9 How Did 168 Spanish Conquistadores Capture an Empire?
- 10 Why Was a Giraffe the Perfect Gift for the Chinese Emperor?
- 11 Who Visited Gorée Island on 27 June 2013?
- 12 What Is an Incunabulum?
- 13 Who Was Autshumao’s Niece?
- 14 What Did Thomson, Watson & Co. Purchase?
- 15 What Do an Indonesian Volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu Have in Common?
- 16 Why Was the Spinning Jenny Not Invented in India?
- 17 Why Did Railways Hurt Basotho Farmers?
- 18 What Did Sol Plaatje Find on His Journey through South Africa?
- 19 Why Can You Have Any Car as Long as It Is Black?
- 20 What Does a Butterfly Collector Do in the Congo?
- 21 Who Wrote the Best Closing Line of Modern Literature?
- 22 How Could a Movie Embarrass Stalin?
- 23 Who Is the Perfect Soldier?
- 24 What Was the Great Leap Forward?
- 25 Why Should We Cry for Argentina?
- 26 Who Was the Last King of Scotland?
- 27 How Did Einstein Help Create Eskom?
- 28 Why Would You Want to Eat Sushi in the Transkei?
- 29 Why Do the Japanese Play Rugby?
- 30 What Do Lego and the Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century Have in Common?
- 31 What Is Funny about Moore’s Law?
- 32 What Bubbles in Iceland?
- 33 What Did The Economist Get Spectacularly Wrong?
- 34 Will Madiba’s Long Walk to Freedom Ever End?
- 35 What Should No Scholar Ever Do?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - What Happened at Blombos in 70,000 BCE?
The Out-of-Africa Hypothesis and the Peopling of the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2022
Book contents
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Sources and Terminology
- How Do We Thrive?
- 1 Who Are the Architects of Wakanda?
- 2 What Happened at Blombos in 70,000 BCE?
- 3 Why Are the Danes So Individualistic?
- 4 Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?
- 5 How Did Joseph and His Eleven Brothers Solve the Three Economic Problems?
- 6 What Do Charlemagne and King Zwelithini Have in Common?
- 7 Why Do Indians Have Dowry and Africans Lobola?
- 8 Who Was the Richest Man Ever to Live?
- 9 How Did 168 Spanish Conquistadores Capture an Empire?
- 10 Why Was a Giraffe the Perfect Gift for the Chinese Emperor?
- 11 Who Visited Gorée Island on 27 June 2013?
- 12 What Is an Incunabulum?
- 13 Who Was Autshumao’s Niece?
- 14 What Did Thomson, Watson & Co. Purchase?
- 15 What Do an Indonesian Volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu Have in Common?
- 16 Why Was the Spinning Jenny Not Invented in India?
- 17 Why Did Railways Hurt Basotho Farmers?
- 18 What Did Sol Plaatje Find on His Journey through South Africa?
- 19 Why Can You Have Any Car as Long as It Is Black?
- 20 What Does a Butterfly Collector Do in the Congo?
- 21 Who Wrote the Best Closing Line of Modern Literature?
- 22 How Could a Movie Embarrass Stalin?
- 23 Who Is the Perfect Soldier?
- 24 What Was the Great Leap Forward?
- 25 Why Should We Cry for Argentina?
- 26 Who Was the Last King of Scotland?
- 27 How Did Einstein Help Create Eskom?
- 28 Why Would You Want to Eat Sushi in the Transkei?
- 29 Why Do the Japanese Play Rugby?
- 30 What Do Lego and the Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century Have in Common?
- 31 What Is Funny about Moore’s Law?
- 32 What Bubbles in Iceland?
- 33 What Did The Economist Get Spectacularly Wrong?
- 34 Will Madiba’s Long Walk to Freedom Ever End?
- 35 What Should No Scholar Ever Do?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
About 300 kilometres from Cape Town on the south-west coast of South Africa is a cave that overlooks the Indian Ocean. Archaeologists have been digging at Blombos Cave since 1991. What they have found has changed our view of human evolution.
Anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa. Homo sapiens is a species of the hominid family, the great apes. Genetic evidence suggests that apes diverged from other mammals around 85 million years ago; the earliest fossils we have of apes are from around 55 million years ago.
There are two things that make humans unique from other apes: bipedalism and language. Bipedalism, our ability to walk on two legs, also resulted in other skeletal changes, to the pelvis, the vertebral column, feet and ankles, and the skull, including an increase in the size and structure of the brain.
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- Our Long Walk to Economic FreedomLessons from 100,000 Years of Human History, pp. 12 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022