Discipline

Anthropology

Lessons across the journey that lean on anthropology, in the order they appear in the story.

1. 6.1
   Primates and hominins

   The family tree from the first primates to the hominins.

   Draft
2. 6.2
   From habilis to sapiens

   Homo habilis, Homo erectus and the arrival of our species.

   Draft
3. 6.3
   Fire, tools and cooking

   Stone tools, controlled fire and the cooking hypothesis.

   Planned
4. 6.4
   Language and symbolic thought

   The evidence for language and the first art.

   Planned
5. 6.5
   Collective learning

   Why humans, alone among species, accumulate knowledge across generations.

   Planned
6. 6.6
   Out of Africa, into India

   The peopling of the world, including the early routes into the subcontinent.

   Planned
7. 6.7
   Foraging lifeways

   How people lived for most of human history.

   Planned