Assumptions

•   Human evolution has been a progressive adaptation to a dynamic environment

•   Over the 5m years since humans split from the chimpanzees, this adaptation has given us our present anatomy, physiology and some psychological characteristics

•   Human physiological adaptation proceeds far more slowly - over thousands of generations - than social, cultural or technological adaptation

•   For all but the last 10,000 years, human physiological adaptation followed a broadly consistent direction. 

•   About 10,000 years ago the transition to agriculture began, piecemeal taking over the hunter-gatherers societies of the Paleolithic period; thus began a radical divergence from our evolutionary past

•   Agriculture and settlement transformed the course of human evolution: humans began modifying the environment rather than adapting to it; our Paleolithic minds and bodies began creating the modern era

•   Human modification of the environment has increased exponentially over the past 10,000 years, from local, temporary and superficial to global, permanent and systemic.

These assumptions lead to certain observations

Evfit Home  The premise on which these assumptions are based