The evolution of the genus Homo , met a cranial capacity of over 1,000 cubic centimeters , reach a threshold and is currently produced important innovations in our system to adapt. This is an episode in which some major acquisitions are socialize and others emerge.
In this sense, the emergence of consciousness was for the genus Homo a purchase. Consciousness is the ability to realize our interactions with the medium between us and, consequently, try to understand them. Interestingly, it was our species that began the process toward the seminal forms of apprehension of reality. The Homo heildebergensis , ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis , was its pioneer, as evidenced by the remains found at Sima de los Huesos site, the Sierra de Atapuerca. There we discovered a intentional accumulation of corpses held more than 500,000 years, indicating that the Homo heildebergensis had knowledge od'intuïció on death and probably practiced a ritual funeral to accumulate congeners transferred. This action probably indicates the beginning of a new form of human adaptation unknown at this time.
At that time, not only because the dead of accumulated intentionally, but, for example, we also have evidence that humans develop other symbolic activities such as art . Producing plastic indicates a high level of abstraction because without this ability is very difficult to understand how this property emerges within our lineage.
The fire behavior and its properties which were accelerated towards the acquisition of consciousness, probably due to the development of an articulated language that feeds a process of progressive encefalització in our genre.
We must understand that the acquisition awareness accelerates systematically hominines' ability to reflect on themselves and realize their uniqueness, achieved through intelligence operations socialized.
The emergence of consciousness and socialization for the ' Homo sapiens, can form the basis of a new way to see us, provided that this awareness becomes critical operations. The acquisition of awareness of a species is indeed new and not yet widespread. This awareness is a consequence of the transformation of knowledge thought Incidentally, a process still very incipient.
critical awareness of how the spread of species, is widespread and socialize, may depend on the future of mankind on our planet. Possibly, the great evolutionary synthesis has come at a time in which our brain is able to continuously learn and find out the laws governing the nature and soon experimentally reproduce them.
The set of acquisitions that make us human, as part of the process hominisation, are to ensure the emergence of new capabilities that must be verified under the progress conscious and responsible evolution of our species.
fragment extracted from the inaugural lecture of the academic year 2010-2011 Rovira i Virgili , I delivered on 28 September. Eudald Carbonell.
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