Organized Gathering of Food

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Human Uniqueness Compared to "Great Apes":

Absolute Difference

MOCA Domain:

Behavior

MOCA Topic Authors:

Alyssa Crittenden

Margaret Schoeninger

Timing

Timing of appearance of the difference in the Hominin Lineage as a defined date or a lineage separation event. The point in time associated with lineage separation events may change in the future as the scientific community agrees upon better time estimates. Lineage separation events are defined in 2017 as:

the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) of humans and old world monkeys was 25,000 - 30,000 thousand (25 - 30 million) years ago
the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees was 6,000 - 8,000 thousand (6 - 8 million) years ago
the emergence of the genus Homo was 2,000 thousand (2 million) years ago
the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) of humans and neanderthals was 500 thousand years ago
the common ancestor of modern humans was 100 - 300 thousand years ago

Possible Appearance:

4,000 thousand years ago

Probable Appearance:

2,000 thousand years ago

Definite Appearance:

100 thousand years ago

Related MOCA Topics

Related Topics (hover over title for reason):

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

Referenced By:

Topic	Certainty
Displaced Reference	Speculative
Food Sharing	Likely
Home Base	True
Home Range Size	Likely
Sex Based Division of Labor	Likely
Tool Making	True
Use of Containers	True

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