The high density of population explosion would lead cultural
According to British scientists, population would rise to modern human behavior
A team of researchers from University College London United Kingdom, has developed a research model that combined computer simulations and genetic studies, has managed to establish the reason for the emergence of modern human behavior. Features like the ability to create art or technology, that make us a unique species on the planet, might have their origin in intelligence or the high development of our brain, but the population density. Apparently, human interactions were those that led to intense exchange of ideas and skills, and those that led to the innovations were not lost. This implies a new perspective for understanding one of the crucial breaks of our evolution. For Yaiza Martínez.
Increasing population density, rather than the development of human brain capacity, seem to have facilitated the emergence of the behavior of modern humans, says a study by scientists from University College London (UCL) and the results have been published in the journal Science.
The reason, according to scientists: a high population density led to a greater exchange of ideas and skills, and prevented the loss of innovation.
The maintenance of the new capabilities, combined with a higher probability of the occurrence of useful innovations (as a result of the exchange of ideas), was leading to human behavior that we know today.
The population density allowed all these conditions are maintained in various parts of the world and at different times in history, as this study has found.
