{"id":7313,"date":"2024-02-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2024-01-05T20:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T20:39:19","slug":"looking-at-michael-tomasellos-book-2014-a-natural-history-of-human-thinking-part-13-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Michael Tomasello&#8217;s Book (2014) &#8220;A Natural History of Human Thinking&#8221; (Part 13 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0288 May I state the same material in a different way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still looking at chapter three, concerning&nbsp;<em>the Era of Joint Intentionality<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is my reading of&nbsp;<em>the archaeological markers for this evolutionary era<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;My associations are different than Tomasello&#8217;s.&nbsp;&nbsp;During this time, the Pliocene passes into the Pleistocene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide38.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide38-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0289 Tomasello asserts that&nbsp;<em>the evolution of joint intentionality<\/em>&nbsp;associates to&nbsp;<em>the niche of obligate collaborative foraging<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This breakthrough insight associates to&nbsp;<em>the social circle of &#8220;teams&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>the social evolutionary framework of Robin Dunbar<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Razie Mah examines the importance of teams in&nbsp;<em>Looking at Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar&#8217;s Book (2014) Thinking Big,<\/em>&nbsp;available at smashwords and other e-book venues.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Obligate collaborative foraging<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>team-work<\/em>exploits of&nbsp;<em>potentials of mixed forest and savannah between 3.5 and 0.8Myr<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0290 For Tomasello,&nbsp;<em>obligate collaborative foraging<\/em>&nbsp;entails two interrelated characteristics of teams:&nbsp;<em>interdependence<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>social selection<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Interdependence&nbsp;<\/em>describes&nbsp;<em>what is happening within each team<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Social selection<\/em>&nbsp;describes&nbsp;<em>the way that each team is exclusive.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;Each team excludes some members of the band, and later, community.&nbsp;&nbsp;Interdependence expands the ability to exploit time-constrained opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;Social selection reinforces two impressions.&nbsp;&nbsp;We work for food.&nbsp;&nbsp;I must compete with others for the opportunity to collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0291 Each of these characteristics is significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0292 First, interdependence entails&nbsp;<em>working together towards a joint goal<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tomasello offers&nbsp;<em>the example of pursuing a stag<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;A<em>&nbsp;more appropriate example for the start of this era<\/em>&nbsp;is indicated from&nbsp;<em>the use of Oldowan stone tools<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oldowan stone tools can be constructed at location by cleverly striking one rock against another in such a fashion that&nbsp;<em>the stricken rock<\/em>&nbsp;fragments, leaving&nbsp;<em>a section with a sharp edge<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>This sharp edge<\/em>&nbsp;can then be used to scrape&nbsp;<em>uneaten meat off the bones of large animals<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The sharp-edged core<\/em>&nbsp;can also be used to&nbsp;<em>break long bones,<\/em>&nbsp;allowing the extraction of&nbsp;<em>fatty bone marrow<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lots of food can be gathered in a short time by the Oldowan stone-tool team.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0293 Socially,&nbsp;<em>the Oldowan stone-tool team<\/em>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<em>a joint goal<\/em>&nbsp;that entails&nbsp;<em>several individual roles<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>A few<\/em>&nbsp;labor with&nbsp;<em>sharp stones<\/em>&nbsp;while&nbsp;<em>the others<\/em>&nbsp;fend off&nbsp;<em>vultures and (hopefully not) nastier scavengers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can&nbsp;<em>the suite of roles<\/em>&nbsp;be labeled &#8220;constrained social complexity&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose so.&nbsp;&nbsp;Every team has&nbsp;<em>a suite of roles<\/em>&#8230; er&#8230; I mean to say&#8230; every team exhibits&nbsp;<em>constrained social complexity<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Stepping back,&nbsp;<em>a band&#8217;s or community&#8217;s suite of teams<\/em>&nbsp;also constitutes&nbsp;<em>constrained social complexity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No early hominin can gesticulate the label, &#8220;constrained social complexity&#8221;, using hand talk.&nbsp;&nbsp;What does one pantomime for &#8220;constrained&#8221;?&nbsp;&nbsp;What does one point to for &#8220;social&#8221;?&nbsp;&nbsp;I suppose that&nbsp;<em>a shrug of the shoulders<\/em>&nbsp;can be&nbsp;<em>the hand-talk word for &#8220;complexity&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[BRING CUPPED HANDS TOGETHER][POINT IN DIRECTION OF AUDIENCE][SHRUG SHOULDERS]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0294&nbsp;<em>The Oldowan stone-tool team<\/em>&nbsp;selects for&nbsp;<em>individuals with particular cognitive and physiological capacities,<\/em>&nbsp;such as&nbsp;<em>the ability to keep on task despite distractions<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the ability to intrinsically abstract the physics of rocks, sinews and bones<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over generations of successes, these capacities become traits, because those who succeed have greater reproductive success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly,&nbsp;<em>the Oldowan stone tool<\/em>&nbsp;<em>kit&nbsp;<\/em>remains&nbsp;<em>the same<\/em>&nbsp;for hundreds of thousands of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0295 Not surprisingly, hominins eventually produce a more thoughtful stone tool, which archaeologists label, &#8220;the Acheulean core&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why come up with a new stone tool when Oldowan stone tools worked well enough?&nbsp;&nbsp;I suspect that&nbsp;<em>selection for the physiological and cognitive capacities for this particular teamwork<\/em>&nbsp;produces novel adaptations.&nbsp;&nbsp;The improvement is specific to the team.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1988, two evolutionary psychologists, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, coin a label for these narrow adaptations.&nbsp;&nbsp;They fashion the term, &#8220;mental modules&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0296 In this regard, see&nbsp;<em>Comments on Steven Mithen&#8217;s Book (1996) The Prehistory of Mind<\/em>&nbsp;(by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0297 Ironically, in chapter five, Tomasello argues that&nbsp;<em>mental modularity<\/em>&nbsp;does not fit into&nbsp;<em>current empirical evidence of the flexibility of human thinking<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, what about&nbsp;<em>inflexible human thinking?&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;What about accomplishing&nbsp;<em>the work at hand?<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Don&#8217;t&nbsp;<em>evolved mental modules specifically attuned to performing certain tasks (and playing particular roles)<\/em>&nbsp;come into the picture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, they do.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is precisely&nbsp;<em>what Tooby and Cosmides propose<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even though Oldowan stone tools remain the same for hundreds of thousands of years, hominins slowly, unrecognizably, become better and better at the work at hand.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, they become better and better at mastering&nbsp;<em>the content level of the three-level scholastic interscope for the way humans think<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0298 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide39.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide39-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0299 What is involved in&nbsp;<em>these slow adaptations<\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>the proximate niches of obligate collaborative foraging<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the ultimate niche of triadic relations?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Each team<\/em>&nbsp;adapts to exploit&nbsp;<em>a specific opportunity<\/em>&nbsp;that shows up, on occasion and at varying locations, with regularity and abundance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Each team<\/em>&nbsp;selects for&nbsp;<em>teammates expressing a specific suite of cognitive and physiological traits<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over generations, each team selectively breeds hominins for its &#8220;modular&#8221; actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0300 To me,&nbsp;<em>Tooby and Cosmides&#8217;s proposal that the hominin mind is a &#8220;Swiss-army knife&#8221; of specialized modules<\/em>accords with Tomasello&#8217;s vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0300 Here is a diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide40.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide40.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide40-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0301 Modularity theory predicts that teams<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;select for&nbsp;<em>individuals capable of joining the team<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The team<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;presumes joint-attention<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;as an um&#8230; team-specific adaptation<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The team<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;promotes&nbsp;<em>cognitive developments relevant to that team&#8217;s particular challenges<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Today, some cognitive psychologists label these suites of cognitive traits, &#8220;mental modules&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;respond to opportunities in&nbsp;<em>the proximate niche of the environment and ecology of mixed forest and savannah in Pliocene, then Pleistocene, eastern Africa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently,&nbsp;<em>these mental modules<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>products of divergent evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0302 Yet, all teams share a handful of traits in common.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each displays&nbsp;<em>interdependenc<\/em>e.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each entails&nbsp;<em>social selection<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, each contains&nbsp;<em>hand-talk<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This hand-talk is practical, sensible, and aims to request, inform and share&nbsp;<em>what is going on<\/em>&nbsp;during the drama of team activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each team has its own traditions for converting&nbsp;<em>species intelligibilis<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>species impressa<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Members who cannot hand-talk are left off the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The ability of members of teams to hand talk<\/em>&nbsp;evolves.&nbsp;&nbsp;No matter what the team specializes in, team members become better and better at coupling interventional and specifying signs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, team members get better and better at performing exemplar signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These improvements are&nbsp;<em>products of convergent evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0303 Here is another picture of&nbsp;<em>Tomasello&#8217;s vision for the ultimate human niche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide41.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide41.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Slide41-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0304 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Modularity theory<\/em>&nbsp;does not negate&nbsp;<em>Tomasello&#8217;s scientific insights<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hominins<\/em>&nbsp;work in teams during&nbsp;<em>obligatory collaborative foraging<\/em>. Teams are diverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joint attention<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;and shared intentionality<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;are foundational adaptations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hand-talk evolves within each team tradition.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hand-talk adapts to&nbsp;<em>an ultimate niche,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>the potential of triadic relations.<\/em>&nbsp;Tomasello calls this niche, &#8220;sociogenesis&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Proto-linguistic hand-talk and other semiotic processes associated with teamwork<\/em>&nbsp;may have played a role in&nbsp;<em>the brain reorganization that occurs at the time of the earliest appearance of the Homo genus,<\/em>&nbsp;near the midpoint of&nbsp;<em>the era of joint attention<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0288 May I state the same material in a different way? I am still looking at chapter three, concerning&nbsp;the Era of Joint Intentionality. Here is my reading of&nbsp;the archaeological markers for this evolutionary era.&nbsp;&nbsp;My associations are different than Tomasello&#8217;s.&nbsp;&nbsp;During this time, the Pliocene passes into the Pleistocene. 0289 Tomasello asserts that&nbsp;the evolution of joint intentionality&nbsp;associates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking at Michael Tomasello&#039;s Book (2014) &quot;A Natural History of Human Thinking&quot; (Part 13 of 22) - An Archaeology of the Fall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7313\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at Michael Tomasello&#039;s Book (2014) &quot;A Natural History of Human Thinking&quot; (Part 13 of 22) - An Archaeology of the Fall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"0288 May I state the same material in a different way? 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