Sequential Action Causation & Sequential Action Graphs
A day in the life of hunter-gatherers
Summary
There are plenty of misunderstandings about our prehistorical ancesters originating form Africa. Nevertheless anthropology, archaeology and paleogenetics have corrected the image of what Immanuel Kant named “the wild”. They developed a complex language, culture and alloparenting.
Alloparenting in humans is the universal and evolutionarily significant practice of non-parent individuals providing care for a child, such as grandparents, siblings, friends, or even professional caregivers.
They cooperated on a voluntarily base and shared food. Moral codes were transferred from one generation to another by story telling. Since it is not enough to know how to act in a given situation; individuals need also to know that others also know how to act. Their social relations were gender-egalitarian. Practising ‘reverse dominance hierarchy’. Thus their political system was the first real direct democracy.
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Disclaimer
These examples of enlightening directed analytic graphs only serve to illustrate the possibilities of the concept.
The EDAG about the life of hunter gatherers is the result of quite long and thorough text research by the toolmaker. But he is not really an expert in all these different fields. In fact, the concept is only really workable if there is an independent interdisciplinary team working on, and overseeing, the consistency, completeness and precision of the causal relationships and action sequences with their underlying explanations.
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