Sapient paradox explained

The Sapient paradox is a question that can be formulated as "why there was such a long gap between emergence of genetically and anatomically modern humans and the development of complex behaviors?" Homo sapiens emerged as a species somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 (or even 200,000) years ago, but the behaviour that is associated with modern humans began to emerge and accelerate only 10,000 years ago. The question was first formulated by archaeologist Colin Renfrew in 1996.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

See also

• Timeline of prehistory
• Ancient history
• The Great Filter
• Fermi paradox

External links

• The Sapient Paradox: Social Interaction as a Foundation of Mind, lecture by Renfrew

Notes and References

1. Donald . Merlin . The sapient paradox: can cognitive neuroscience solve it? . Brain . 21 January 2009 . 132 . 3 . 820–824 . 10.1093/brain/awn290 . 19 June 2022 . The paradox is that there was a gap of well over 50 000 years between the speciation and tectonic phases.. free .
2. Renfrew . Colin . Solving the "Sapient Paradox" . BioScience . 1 February 2008 . 58 . 2 . 171–172 . 10.1641/B580212 . 86429611 . 19 June 2022 . called the “sapient paradox,” that some of the complex behaviors now associated with humans took a long time to develop even after the emergence in Africa of humans who were fully modern in the anatomical and genetic senses.. free .
3. Renfrew . Colin . Frith . Chris . Malafouris . Lambros . Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 12 June 2008 . 363 . 1499 . 2041–2047 . 10.1098/rstb.2008.0010 . 18292058 . 2606703 . the biological basis of our species has been established for at least that time (and perhaps for as much as 200000 years), while the novel behavioural aspects of our ‘sapient’ status have taken so long to emerge or to construct themselves, or rather that they have done so very recently.
4. Iriki . Atsushi . Suzuki . Hiroaki . Tanaka . Shogo . Vieira . Rafael BRETAS . Yamazaki . Yumiko . The Sapient Paradox and the Great Journey: Insights from Cognitive Psychology, Neurobiology, and Phenomenology . Psychologia . 2021 . 63 . 2 . 151–173 . 10.2117/psysoc.2021-B017. 238444188 . free .