ABSTRACT
The history of human kind began at that unknowable time in the past when some unique coming together of certain traits set our ancestors on a path that eventually led to the emergence of our clever, talking, and inquisitive, problem-solving and cultural species. The moment of cultural emergence can thus be understood to be the moment when an aspect of mental life became collectively derived and acted out socially. Culture emerged from evolutionary developments in human cognition and social life. The individual pre-cultural mind became to be accessed collectively in relation to matters concerning social living, and these formed the basis of cultural practices. One of the most important consequences for social theory of the analysis is the implicit inseparability of nature and culture. In seeing human agency as an emergent outcome of the interweaving of the environment, cognition, morphology, social life and culture is to simultaneously make a claim for the indivisibility of nature and culture.
