Ownership of Property

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The concept of property, applied to tangibles or intangibles, and symbolically indicated by the grammatical possessive, is found among all peoples. Kummer wrote long ago about "respect of possession". Primates do not carry possessions around; they are temporary.

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Attachment	None
Awareness of the Past and of the Future	None
Deliberately Delaying Gratification	None
Domestication of Animals	None
Domestication of Plants	None
Enforcement through Sanctions	None
Gift Giving	None
Inheritance Rules	None
Law	None
Mental Time Travel	None
Organized Warfare	None
Sense of Justice	None
Social Conventions	None

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

Probable Appearance:

500 Thousand Years

Definite Appearance:

100 Thousand Years

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