ABSTRACT

One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one. In human evolution the constituent steps of physical and cultural change were not taken with an end in sight. Since what is necessarily described in human terms, often claims a difference in kind, but these claims merely attempt to shade the strong relationship we have with our ape relatives. It looks at gathering-hunting humans today, it finds that plant food makes up most of the diet. The sequence of change is critical in studying human evolution, since later behavioural innovations such as increased meat eating through pirating and butchery, and later through hunting, and fishing could come about because previous behaviour allowed it to develop. In conclusion it returns to its initial point that human biological evolution and cultural change occur step by step.