The study of primates, used by Jiang to compare gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos with humans when theorizing early social change.
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Primatology
The study of primates, used by Jiang to compare gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos with humans when theorizing early social change.
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Because the transition to farming remains unexplained, Jiang says the lecture can only construct theories from archaeological, anthropological, psychological or neurological, and primatological evidence.
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"...can look at the last field we can look at is primatology a study of primates, okay or monkeys Because guess what guys we're..."
"So for these three reasons the transition from hunter -gatherer to farming makes no sense and even today we are not able To explain..."
"Clothing okay, and from that you're able to figure out what happened in the past and so three pieces of evidence market archaeology We..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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