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Curtis Marean

Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

The Dissenter

George Graham

Lee McIntyre

Mark Moffett

Pascal Boyer

Agustín Fuentes

Joseph Ledoux

Cecilia Heyes

Sarah Brosnan

Tanya Luhrmann

Melanie Mitchell

Robert McCauley

Philippe Rochat

Azim Shariff

Frans de Waal

Elliott Sober

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#322 Curtis Marean: Zooarchaeology, Human Origins And Evolution

Curtis Marean recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2019. Marean is a professor at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Curtis Marean - Survivors on the Edge of Land and Sea: How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species 

Scientists have identified a series of milestones in the evolution of the human food quest that they anticipate had far-reaching impacts on biological, behavioral and cultural evolution: the inclusion of substantial portions of meat, the broad-spectrum revolution and the transition to food production. The foraging shift to dense and predictable resources is another key milestone that had consequential impacts on the later part of human evolution. The theory of economic defendability predicts that this shift had an important consequence: elevated levels of intergroup territoriality and conflict. In this talk, I integrate this theory with a well-established general theory of hunter-gatherer adaptations and make predictions for the sequence of appearance of several evolved traits of modern humans. I review the distribution of dense and predictable resources in Africa and argue that they occur only in aquatic contexts (coasts, rivers and lakes). The paleoanthropological empirical record contains recurrent evidence for a shift to the exploitation of dense and predictable resources by 110,000 years ago, and the first known occurrence is in a marine coastal context in South Africa. Some theory predicts that this elevated conflict would have provided the conditions for selection for the hyperprosocial behaviors unique to modern humans.

Scientists have identified a series of milestones in the evolution of the human food quest that they anticipate had far-reaching impacts on biological, behavioral and cultural evolution: the inclusion of substantial portions of meat, the broad-spectrum revolution and the transition to food production. The foraging shift to dense and predictable resources is another key milestone that had consequential impacts on the later part of human evolution. The theory of economic defendability predicts that this shift had an important consequence: elevated levels of intergroup territoriality and conflict. In this talk, I integrate this theory with a well-established general theory of hunter-gatherer adaptations and make predictions for the sequence of appearance of several evolved traits of modern humans. I review the distribution of dense and predictable resources in Africa and argue that they occur only in aquatic contexts (coasts, rivers and lakes). The paleoanthropological empirical record contains recurrent evidence for a shift to the exploitation of dense and predictable resources by 110,000 years ago, and the first known occurrence is in a marine coastal context in South Africa. Some theory predicts that this elevated conflict would have provided the conditions for selection for the hyperprosocial behaviors unique to modern humans.

Lecture | Curtis Marean | The Transition to Foraging for Dense and Predictable Resources and Its Impact on the Evolution of Modern Humans