ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter sums up the human biological and cultural past by asking and endeavoring to answer several interrelated questions:
What is it that made us human? If becoming human was a single phenomenon, what was it, and when did it occur in our evolving past? If the things that make us human are multifaceted, what are those human traits, and did we acquire them all at once or over a long time span?
Are biological and cultural change the same thing, or are they very different processes? Did they coevolve?
Given that biological and cultural change are ongoing processes, what is the future of the human species? Will our culture continue to change faster than our biology?
