Early Humans

"Our story starts millions of years ago".

Humans were weak animals, they didn't have night vision or the ability to swim super fast or to fly. That was until they used stones and sticks their advantage, to find food, to hunt, they turned them into tools. Eventually humans discovered fire and how to use fire to their advantage. It kept them warm, kept dangerous animals away. We eventually figured out how to use fire to cook. Before humans had fire it took a lot of time and energy to cook raw food and it was hard to digest too. Once we had fire it was a lot easier to eat food, cooking made food easier to chew, digest and it made us start to change it gave us smaller teeth and smaller stomachs. Some scientists say this is what made our brain start growing. This was the start of our storytelling life.

What made humans so successful?

The only reason we can scare a bear away and lock monkeys in zoos is because we cooperate in very very large numbers. Together we can achieve amazing things. And it's all because of our superpower that we can cooperate better than any bear. This is because of our storytelling, if everyone believes the same story then we all do the same thing. For example: Football, if everyone didn't know the same story one person would think maybe the game is to stand on the ball and the last one standing wins. Maybe someone else thinks it's to throw the ball as far as you can. But we don't think this. If everyone followed different rules, how could you ever play together? But most of time you don't have these problems. Because most kids believe the same story. Everyone accepts that you can't touch the ball with your hands. Everyone accepts that you have to kick the ball with your feet. Why do we accept these rules? It's because our parents and teachers told us this story.