Would you agree something happened to the human race 6 - 10,000 years ago that changed us?

Question

Even if humans had walked the earth for a million years prior to this time, we suddenly changed a lot.

Whether you believe in evolution or creation what accounts for this sudden change in humans?

Answer 1

Hmmm. That is the first thoughtful question I've seen today. Interesting perspective. That is actually compatible with more than one belief system including Christianity (although the Fundies would disagree).

Answer 2

A relationship between early frontal lobe development and early civilizations is clear. What's not is the reason. Some claim random events exhibiting intelligent design provided the suited strand of Homo Erectus. However, at each branching moment lies another probability that exceeds the last for reason-ability within a time frame. IOW, each point has increasing probability for not being able to accommodate the necessary choices. Some will say there are multiple universes due to every possibility. The problem with that statement is the claimer does not comprehend that probabilities converge in the absence of conflicting choices. Nature goes out of her way to hold herself in one piece. How does this apply to humans 10000 years ago? This is strictly belief, but it follows that circa the time of Adam and Eve is close in proportion to when the first remains were discovered demonstrating a larger skull. Could eating the fruit be the reason the frontal lobe developed? It's a stretch. But something to think about.

Answer 3

You're asking: 'did something change over a four thousand year period?' The answer invariably is yes, many things changed.

When the Europeans first visited The Americas, for example, they were stunned to find the natives had developed the exact same technology and culture as the Europeans! There were castles, and kings, and queens, and..!

And when they went into Africa to begin the slave trade some one hundred and fifty years later, they found the Africans also had a mirrored society! Their music was just entering the Baroque period, as it so happened!

So yes, approximately 6,000-10,000 years ago, all people 'changed', and began developing at the same pace and in the same direction!

Answer 4

I do one heck of a lot of studying , but I never came across anything that even hinted at some sort of sudden change six to ten thousand years ago .
Where did this information come from ? I sure would like to study a copy of it .
At any rate , I don't believe there was such a change . It propably came right out of some guy's imagination , like so much other BS .

Answer 5

Mankind walked out of the ice age into a warm, lush environment and changed. At that walking point mankind did not have to work so hard to sustain itself. Food was more prevalent and the other needs that go along with living were also. So man took his big brain and began to use it to turn the world into what he wanted for himself. He became creative to the point of building a society with laws, writing and all the things that we accept as part of life.

Answer 6

First of all, humanity only goes back about 40,000 years. Not a million.

What accounts for the changes are primarily weather changes and the need for a more agriculturally based society over the previous nomadic society.

Answer 7

Yes..we suffered what they call a "BLACKHOLE" effect. God speaks of a second earth in the Book of Genesis. His 1st creation failed so he had to destroy the 1st earth which caused a explosive effect in the atmosphere throwing off particules creating the new earth as we know it today as God purified the atmosphere surrounding the new earth it left a "BLACKHOLE" literally in our atmoshere and scientists have been puzzled by it for centuries.

Answer 8

someone got the idea of monotheism
and no people we are not only 10, 000 years old
that would make the egyptians among the first civilization, which is FAR from the truth

Answer 9

settled agriculture. specifically, the plow (and domesticating beasts to pull it helped, too).

it freed up a significant percentage of the population to allow further developments: the wheel, domesticating the horse, written language, mining, improved tools, etc. It's harder to invent when you literally don't know where your next meal is, or where you'll live tomorrow.

Answer 10

I'm not familiar... but I'll take a wild guess... the start of written languages.

EDIT: According to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world

... that was about the time that major agriculture started taking root... with all of that abundance, it makes sense that people would focus more on other things like scientific development, philosophy, astronomy, etc etc.