 Leanardo Divinci (1452-1519)
Why did all the other Hominids and archaic Homo species become extinct while we, the "Homo Imaginative Sapiens" survived and prospered?
The answer is - The earlier hominids and the archaic Homo Sapiens (before they became imaginative) that existed before modern humans did not have the one trait that made the difference in their survival. Our cousins (Homo Erectus, Neanderthals, etc.) were able to survive for long periods of time but when they encountered overwhelming conditions that they could not handle they died off and became extinct.
Modern Humans were able to survive because they had evolved a powerful new "Human Imagination". (I think our species is better described as the "Homo Imaginative Sapiens" rather then the "Homo Sapiens Sapiens"). Human Imagination is a combination of "creative imagination and learning imagination.
All modern humans have descended from a single tribe living in Africa. For some mysterious reason between seventy and one hundred thousand years ago the children of this tribe, as they matured, began to become imaginative.
The tribe's people began to create new tools and weapons, they began to progress. It happened very slowly over a period of hundreds of generations. Human Imagination is mankind's "special gift" it has enabled us to adapt to conditions that had been overwhelming to our distant cousins. It is mankind's defining trait.
This powerful "Human Imagination" gave mankind the power to adapt to new climates, design new weapons to defend ourselves, find new foods to feed ourselves. Modern humans' early imaginative ancestors were able to develop new words and languages that enabled them to communicate new ideas among one another (this is how the "Mind" of mankind came into being).
The "Mind" of mankind enabled our imaginative ancestors to communicate their ideas to one another and build upon these new ideas and therefore to progress and survive adversity better. The special gift of a powerful human imagination allowed mankind to began to migrate out of their ancestoral territory into vast new lands, adapting to the new conditions as they came upon them.
Other hominids and archaic homos had also migrated out of Africa and had been successful for long periods of time but eventually died out and became extinct. Our imaginative ancestors were the only Homo species to successfuly spread out over the planet and flourish. While the Homo Erectus and Neanderthal species floundered and became extinct mankind's imaginative tribes flourished and multiplied, there are now over six billion people on the planet today. This was made possible only because of our special gift - Human Imagination. We had become the "Homo Imaginative Sapiens", the only surviving Homo species on planet Earth.
© by Donald L. Hamilton - author of The Mind of Mankind
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