

THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES
This series took place onFrom toDirector: Eudald Carbonell
Our origin is related to certain biological and cultural acquisitions, among which the use of technology and social cohesion are the most relevant. We have been able to distribute throughout the entire planet, with an unstoppable increase in cultural complexity linked to very changing socio-economic expressions. The technological development that started 26 million years ago has allowed us to progressively overcome Natural Selection and to set technical selection as the main mechanism of our cultural and biological development. This course has been structured into four areas with two conferences each: the animal and ethological part, the human social reality, its symbolic dimension, and the aspects of economical organization. All human reality, including the construction of cities, is based in these traits so specifically human.
Lectures in this series
- Jordi Agustí
The price of intelligence: genomic delay and brain vulnerability
Enric BufillSociability among primates
Miquel LlorentePaleobiology and evolution of the genus Homo
José María Bermúdez de CastroSymbolic consciousness in the Sima de los Huesos of Atapuerca: hearing and origin of language
Ignacio Martínez MendizábalArt as a social cohesion factor in prehistory
Ramón ViñasSocialized technology
Eudald CarbonellSedentary
Robert Sala