Ashley Yaffe
Humanities
9/11/17
Omega11
1. Body Shape: “These mental symbols eventually led to language
in all its complexity and the ability to process information is the main reason we are the only
hominin still alive” (3).
Culture: “We started to assign symbolic values to objects
such as geometrical designs on plaques and cave art” (4).
Agriculture: “Our advanced teamwork may simply
reflect our long history of working together to get food” (3).
Socialize: “We see evidence of basic
linguistic abilities in chimpanzees, but we are the only ones writing things down” (5).
Tools: “The technology
behind the atomic bomb only exists because of a cooperative hive mind” (1).
2. A trait that makes
