ABSTRACT

Our species has been around for about 300,000 years and hasn’t changed much in skeletal appearance during that time, but huge changes occurred culturally. We have transitioned from a hominin, living a repetitious primitive existence with little innovation, to one showing profound innovation in everything we do. That ability to innovate, communicate, and build on previous discoveries led to a species that flies in airplanes, projects images across the world in seconds, walks on the moon, cures diseases, and regards almost nothing as impossible.