Dating back many, many, years ago, man was first created due to evolution from the early stages of primates. These beings were known as Neanderthals, and as time went on man started to become more advanced. From creating the fire, or creating tools, these human beings transformed and became to what we know today as regular homo sapiens. The reasons why man had to change over time is due to the process of evolution, and that change was needed to survive in order to keep warm, obtain food, and reproduce. By looking at the information given in the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, the reader can understand the interaction between humans and the environment based on demography, migration, and patterns of settlement.
Around the time of 11,000 BCE, the first signs of human life were derived from the chimpanzee. From then on, the first human that was as close to modern humans were Homo erectus, but “it was more than an ape, but still much less than a modern human” (36). This species originated in Africa, and many fossils were remained in these lands, showing that the brain size was nearly half the size of a modern brain. But from these remains, it showed that these people started to migrate in other areas, and these Neanderthals “were the first humans to leave evidence of burying their dead are care for their sick” (38). As these people started to change, so did their survival skills. There hunting skills were still basic, and they used crude stone tools. At last, human history finally started around 50,000 years ago, and the “earliest signs of that leap came from East African sites with standardized stone tools and the first preserved jewelry” (39). Due to these discoveries, it was noted that Neanderthals were beginning to change into a brand new species, which are known as Cro-Magnons.
The Cro-Magnons were much more advanced than the Neanderthals, and some of the best products that have been preserved from their time have been “their magnificent cave...