ABSTRACT
Human beings are storytelling creatures, with a deeply ingrained penchant for reductionist explanations. Significantly, Richard Dawkins himself took a distinctly different tack when it came to the analysis of human behaviors. A critical factor to consider in the context of human behavioral evolution is that our fossil and particularly archaeological records eloquently indicate that, unlike its predecessors, Homo sapiens is not simply an improvement upon what went before. The human fossil record is documented back to seven to six million years ago. Individual human beings, similar as their physiological requirements may be, are not condemned to behave in identical ways; and although their comportments are—on average—limited both by anatomy and by social conventions, it is fair to point out that both components of virtually any thinkable pair of antitheses can be employed to characterize the specific displayed behaviors of some human individuals.
