Society with the eye of Evolution

Journey from Apes ToHumans
About three million years ago, give or take few thousands :), some african apes had been living in trees came down to the ground. There was nothing special about these apes. Their brains were small and they weren't especially smart. They didnt have claws or sharp teeth for weapons. they weren't particularly strong or fast. they were certainly no match for a leopard. But because they were short, they started standing upright on their hind legs, to see over the tall African grass. That's how it began. Just some ordinary apes, looking out over the grass.
As time went on, the apes stood upright more and more of the time. That left their hands free to do things. Like all apes, they were tool-users. Chimps, for example, use twigs to fish for termites. That sort of thing. As time went on, our apes ancestors developed more complex tools. That simulated their brains to grow in size and complexity. It began a spiral; more complex tools provoked more complex brains which provoked more complex tools. And our brains literally exploded, in evolutionary terms. Our brains more than doubled in size in about a million years.

Problem of Evolution:
Brain size has created problem along with helping us, for one thing problem getting born. Big brain can't pass through the birth canal -which means that both mother and child die in child birth. That;s no good. What's the evolutionary response? To make human infants born very early in development, when their brains are still small enough to pass through pelvis. It's the marsupial solution- most growth occurs outside the mother's body. A human child's brain doubles during the first year of life. that's a good solution to the problem of birth, but it creates other problems. It means that human children will be helpless long after birth. The infant of many mammals can walk minutes after birth. Other Walk in a few days, or weeks. but human infants can't walk for a full year. They can't feed themselves for even longer. Being born in an immature state means that human infants have unformed brains. they don't arrive with a lot built-in, instinctive behavior. Instinctively, a newborn can suck and grasp, but that's all about all.

Society and Education system:
Complex human behavior is not instinctive at all. So one price of bin brains was that our incestors had to evolve new stable social organization s to permit long-term child care, lasting many years. So human societies has to develop education to train the brains of their children. to teach them how to act. Every human society expends tremendous time and energy teaching its children the right way to behave. You look at a simpler society, in say rain forest somewhere, and you find that every child is born into a network of adults responsible for helping to raise the child. Not only parents, but aunts and uncles and grandparents and tribal elders. Some teach the child to hunt or gather food or weave; some teach them about sex and war. But responsibilites are clearly defined, and if a child does not have, say, a mother's brother's sister to do certain teaching job, the people get together and appoint the substitute.

Because, raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved. And eventually, a few million years later, we have kids using computers.