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WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life, perceived through the hominid, coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.
Now interestingly, what you're looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological -- development of the cities, cultures -- and cultural, which is human expression.
Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that's involved here -- two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it --
you're beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm.
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