Organized Gathering of Food

Certainty Style Key

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True Likely Speculative

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Human Uniqueness Compared to "Great Apes":

Absolute Difference

MOCA Domain:

Behavior

MOCA Topic Authors:

Alyssa Crittenden

Margaret Schoeninger

Related Topics:

Title	Certainty
Brain Size	Likely
Childhood	Speculative
Composition of Fallback Foods	Likely
Construction of Shelters	Speculative
Consumption of Aquatic Foods	True
Consumption of Underground Plant Foods	True
Cooking	Likely
Cooperative Breeding	Likely
Detoxifying/Removing Antinutrients	Speculative
Domestication of Animals	Likely
Domestication of Plants	Likely
Food Components	Likely
Food Handling	True
Food Preparation	True
Frugivory	Likely
Grandparenting	Speculative
Home Base	Likely
Home Range Size and Population Density	Likely
Inter-Generational Transfers	Likely
Maternal Tolerance of Allomaternal Assistance	Speculative
Nuclear Families	Speculative
Organized Hunting for Meat	Likely
Organized Scavenging for Meat	Likely
Sharing of Food	Likely
Shortened Inter-birth Intervals	Likely
Social Group Composition	Likely
Storage of Food	Likely
Tool Making	Likely
Tool Manufacture and Use	Likely
Tooth Size	Likely
Use of Containers	True

Timing

Timing of Appearance of the Difference in the Hominin Lineage.

For this entry assume that

the common ancestor of humans and old world monkeys was 25000 thousand (25 million) years ago
the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was 6000 thousand (6 million) years ago
the emergence of the genus Homo was 2000 thousand (2 million) years ago
the common ancestor of modern humans was 100 thousand years ago

Possible Appearance:

4000 Thousand Years

Probable Appearance:

2000 Thousand Years

Definite Appearance:

100 Thousand Years

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