The biological fundamentals of human cultural developments and their unique functional integrations

Hans-Rainer Duncker

pp. 53-72

in: Armin Grünwald, Mathias Gutmann, Eva Neumann-Held (eds), On human nature, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

To explain the basic principles involved with the special biological conditions of human cultural developments, it will be necessary to introduce a short description of the underlying thoughts on the evolutionary development of the hierarchically organized complexity of our organism. We carry in our organism important elements of the 3.5 billion years of evolution of life on earth.