Question about evolution?

Question

If homo sapiens popped up all of the sudden about 10,000 years ago give or take....why did only 5 civilizations pop up through out the world around the same time, when the rest of the world stay as hunter gatherers. If Darwinism and survival of the fittest is correct then why didn't the whole world evolve at the same time to this cultural state of advancement? I do say cultural but at the same time higher states of intellect must be in place to conceptualize these cultures..It's a contradiction to say that we evolved from evolution but only a small fraction of the whole world evolved intellectually right after that to build great ancient agricultural civilizations when the rest of the world was still hunting and gathering like their ancestors.

Answer 1

Huh? Maybe your intellect is a little farther advanced than mine---But, Huh? I will answer this question, the one that I believe you are asking, in detail later but until then---Huh? Simplify---No matter how intelligent you are, keep in mind that the world is mostly inhabited by complete idiots and idgits! If you simplify the question, you will get a simple answer---One that makes sense to all of the people. Not just the intellectuals. Some people need to be led by their nose. The majority of people want to understand, they just can't grasp the question, much less begin to answer with a ounce of intellect or sanity. Therefore, they keep "rocking" along without the answers they need to survive. Really hope that I can begin to understand your "Huh" question soon! Break it down---Let the rest of us in on your questions and answers, PLEASE! I believe most people would answer but the question has long since gotten lost in the translation. Original perspectives and goals have gotten lost along the way. Wasn't the original quest of God to make sure all of his creatures got to enjoy the fruits of his abundance. At least half of the creatures that God created aren't even given what they need to survive , how can there be any evolution without this need being met. Mankind made the disaster of everyone not having what they need. Mankind will not get what they want if all of mankind doesn't get what they need! There can be no evolution if His Creation is not used for what it was intended for. It's not Creation vs Evolution. They have to operate hand in hand or neither can exist. That's the best of layman terms. God did create and he meant for us to evolve and that is why we have. We're not exactly evolving in a kind and gentle manner. Certainly not what he intended. He can stop evolution any time he choses as was he was The Creater.
BELIEVE THAT. Again, evolution will stop when the Creator says "Oops, that's not what I meant to create". Let me tear this picture up and start over---Like a child with a box of crayons---Don't like this picture so I think I'll rip this picture up and start over. The paper is then thrown in the trash for the child to begin another drawing. Do you get the picture? :)

So much for detail later! :)

God's Speed and Grace,
Nancy

Answer 2

It seems unreasonable to expect every group of individuals to evolve at the same time. While others may suggest different reasons, I think some groups of individuals develop more slowly than others. Also, that's not to say that these other cultures had no advancement, they just didn't advance quickly enough to compete with the others. Many could have just lacked usable resources in their area, or had so many hunting/gathering opportunities that advancement was not necessary. After all, necessity is the mother of invention.

Also, it would seem that for such cultures to develop, the population would have to seem difficult to sustain otherwise.
If tribes of hunter gatherers were regularly at war, had a disease hit at an inappropriate time, etc. They may have never been hungry because their population didn't overtake their resources.

It's the same way a culture doesn't learn to defend their cities unless something is around to attack their cities. Simple necessity.

Just like anything else, there are a million reasons one group may not be able to compete with other groups.

Personally, Ive always found it strange that they seemed to evolve simultaneously and, to a large effect, similarly.

Answer 3

You have a lot of contradictions here, a lot of misunderstandings. You need to look over what your saying.

In the first place Sapiens didn't just "Pop up" 10,000 years ago, it was probably about 60 thousand years ago. More then five cultures arose, it was said that if this had not happen this way, it would have happen through the chances of probability, like the light bulb, it took place within a few years in several places around the world, the automobile, the plane.
Inventions will take place as we need them through the world, that's how culture arose.

We did basically evolve at the same general times because we "needed it" you might say, in the simplest terms.
We had to have crops, to survive and be able to stay in one place, to "evolve"
About ten thousand years ago this took place around the Greek, Turkey area. we spread out from there, going East into China as we evolved. You could say, the "survival of the fittest" as you put it took place, people move to survive, follow the game, to get to warmer climates, to farm "burn and plant"

Hunting and gathering took place as an extra course in the menu of humanity because that's what was needed, as game was there, there was no need to farm, different social class.

Answer 4

As Mato has already pointed out, civilization is typically said to have begun "10,000 years ago" though it really began far earlier than that. Our species has been around for far longer than civilization which is a result of progression.

There are a lot of theories why some of the world progressed faster than others. A book that examines quite a few of them is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jarod Diamond and I highly recommend it. There is no way to concisely break down all the points he makes in the book...and no one of them stands alone but when you look at a collective of the ideas, a very impressive big picture is formed.

Answer 5

You confuse biological evolution with cultural. The later is predicated on the former, but the rate of the later is much faster and varied. You seem to be positing a form of social Darwinism. This was actually a concept of Herbert Spencer, which Darwin had nothing to do with. Evolution by natural selection pays the coin of success in progeny; not cultural superiority. Go here for a much needed education in evolutionary theory. You are in several fallacy states, including the naturalistic and it's counterpoint, the moralistic.

http://www.talkorigins.org

http://www.aboutdarwin.com

Answer 6

Anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens appeared 150,000 years ago. They didn't "pop out of nowhere." Cultural innovation and invention, 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, were in response to very localized events and environmental factors. Parallel cultural developments have occurred in different areas of the world faced with similar stresses. Some cultures remained static due to a lack of need to change.

Take a good course on Cultural Antropology in a major university and you will learn more.

Answer 7

Mato had a good answer except that I would put it back to at least 200,000 years ago for modern Homo Sapiens appearance. Don't confuse Darwin and survival of the fittest and assume that all creatures are moving toward us and our society. They are not. You and I are not the pinnicle. Once you get this idea out of your head, you can understand some of the other things. A chimp, for example, is idealy suited to its niche. You would not survive in a chimps niche.

Answer 8

I could not answer for evolution; it has many anomalies.
But I have gone thoroughy through this one:


Certainly not ...
A prime reason to deny the Darwinian work as follows:
Expert Anatomist and kinesiologist, D Towers, over his recent 9 year research, in his work, ‘TWO BIRDS ... ONE STONE!!', discovered, unequivocally, that Man and the snake are precise opposites of one another! ... in ALL aspects - both anatomically and behaviorally!
That is eerie!!!

But once we have recovered from the shock of such a discovery, we immediately realize that only a Master mind could have engineered such, and that random mutation certainly wasn't 'random", if at all!!

The other gravital realization that strikes is that it overwhelmingly supports the Biblical Adam and Eve, wherein it was the snake [serpent] who tempted Eve to oppose God, and set up "opposition in all things' in the first place!

Those who religiously 'hail' 'Biological Evolution of the Species' as some genuine, realistic, form of life source explanation:
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD NOW, AND WORK ON THAT ONE!!


Source(s)
Two Birds ... One Stone!!
by Denis Towers
via Xulonpress.com

Answer 9

The intellectual evolution really only relates to the development of conditions that make propagation of the genetic factors more propitious. And to deny that this is another genetic experiment of nature and that not all genes exclude the possibility of all forms of differentiation when it comes to the searching and finding accidentally solutions that are pragmatically related to survival just in case route c works and b and a don't.

Answer 10

You fundamentally fail to understand evolution and your knowledge on human evolution is similarly flawed. Your logic is also wrong.