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Ep. 96 - The Human Social Creature

February 11, 2021 • Episode 96

Humans (Homo sapiens) are a species of highly intelligent primates. They are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina and—together with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans—are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or hominids).

...Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living organisms. It is the study of extant taxa : taxa with members still alive, as opposed to (all) being extinct. For example:

The moose is an extant species, and the dodo is an extinct species.
In the group of molluscs known as the cephalopods, as of 1987 there were approximately 600 extant species and 7,500 extinct species

Why?

Why talk about the human social creature?

I am actively building the life of my dreams through consistent goal setting utilizing (7) categories:

financial
physical
personal development
family
spiritual
social
career

Last week, we covered financial and physical...

...Monday we talked personal development

...Tuesday we talked family

...Wednesday we talked (Spirituality)

Which brings us to the topic / category of "Social"

Humans uniquely use systems of symbolic communication such as language and art to express themselves and exchange ideas, as well as to organize themselves into purposeful groups. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. (wikipedia)

Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.Wikipedia

These are the "social" groups that I am currently involved in: