ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 is sort of a corollary to Chapter 3. It is more of a short monograph than it is a chapter. It explores the historical origins of the Self and its development in individual Human Beings. Briefly, it asserts that if we want to understand the origins of the Self we can best do so by understanding the Evo-Devo of Human Being. The chapter focuses on Human Development and Paleoanthropology. The latter involves the study of ourselves and our now extinct ancestors who evolved over the last few million years. Taken together as a group we are referred to as hominins. Perhaps surprisingly, studying us over the last hundred thousand years or so involves psychology at least as much as it does anatomy. This mirrors a recent shift in the interests of paleoanthropologists who now study prehistoric tools in order to understand the minds that made them. We also cannot study the Evo-Devo of Human Beings without studying the origins of self-reflective consciousness. Consciousness is by its very nature deeply interpersonal and this observation leads us to a discussion of the Evo-Devo of speech and language (they are different) and the apparatuses of thought and anatomy that make them possible.
