I‘ve been researching the absolutely fascinating theory of how humans created time. It lead me on an amazing adventure from studying the increase of human skull width to lunar cycles. I feel I know how we created time-I now see robust evidence on why it started ~150,000 yrs ago.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @DavidScreative
Oh Brian, I hold back with requests to elaborate on your fascinating hypotheses in 49 of 50 cases, but... Can you please elaborate on that one? What's the causal relationship, and what changed at that specific time?
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Replying to @FlorianHollandt @DavidScreative
Florian, thanks for asking sir. I will try to Tweet it. 1) Due to the narrowness of her bipedal pelvis and the increasing size of her infant head the human female began to experience high childbirth death rates, precipitating a crisis for the species...
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2) …natural selection adapted the human bipedal female to this unique environmental stress by drastically reconfiguring her hormonal reproductive cycle. Her estrus disappeared and menses mysteriously entrained with the periodicity of the moon…
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3) This cycle is the first moment when humans began to construct the concept of “time”. Women formulated the concept of a month, which in turn allowed them to make the connection between sex and pregnancy...
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4) Women taught men about time and the men used this knowledge to become the planet’s most fearsome predator. Unfortunately, they also discovered that they were mortal. The possibility of achieving a kind of immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @DavidScreative
Thank you so much for sharing your train of thought, Brian - I appreciate! :) It's interesting that the facts from Wikipedia tell a less coherent story: Menstrual (instead of estrous) cycles are common to most primates, and humans reached anatomical modernity ~300k yrs ago.
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Replying to @FlorianHollandt @DavidScreative
Florian, thank you! Indeed there is disagreement about the definition: "Overt menstruation where there is bleeding from the uterus through the vagina is found primarily in humans & close relatives such as chimpanzees". Still debate about close relatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation_(mammal) …
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Additionally “reached anatomical modernity ~300k yrs ago” this is a floating time pattern from 500,000 to 200,000 years. I pick a time that represents the ability to communicate this process to other females in the tribe as the most important aspect. It is the start of true time.
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The ultimate point is not just the uniqueness of the human lunar menses cycle, but the ability to cognisze the implications of this cycle through oral teachings in early and perhaps pro-humans. This 30 day and 9 month result fundamentally changes us.
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