Paleolithic .
The paleolithic doesn't help you with all areas.
Uh we are still Paleolithic man.
In the Paleolithic era, our hominid ancestors evolved to live long enough to have a third living generation and that's when art happened.
"Before the Upper Paleolithic , early humans really did die young, most before their 30th birthday."
of the paleolithic age.
We talk about the Paleolithic era, the Neolithic era, the classical civilizations, and the modern period.
Then you get the Paleolithic for about 2.6 million years.
During the paleolithic , this 2.6 million year period.
And so the paleolithic gives you this first-pass approximation of what might be a healthy lifestyle, healthy diet,
So the paleolithic doesn't always hold the solutions to everything.
Near the end the paleolithic .
culture of the Paleolithic because of those paintings, and because of the decoration, and because archaeology has given us more.
It's sort of paleolithic or Jurassic Nazis.
Quite the opposite of those Upper Paleolithic Pleistocene societies.
When our ancestors in the Upper Paleolithic acquired greater access to the REM sleep state, both during sleep and during waking consciousness,
So much my book actually isn't mostly about the paleolithic , even though it uses the word paleo.
So it may become more important to eat more of a paleolithic diet the older you get.
The past is 32,000 years ago in the upper Paleolithic .
healthy, cuz don't forget Paleolithic man, our ancestors from 500,000 years ago,
If you look at our nearest-- not only did we evolve that was in our paleolithic times, but if we go back even evolutionary further back
So starting at the very beginning, from the Paleolithic , which is all way over there, and it goes up like this, this is Europeans
Second line gives the age-- Paleolitico Superior, Upper Paleolithic Period.
The big change in human sleep patterns didn't happen between the paleolithic and the agricultural revolution.
Now, the literature about the Paleolithic is somewhat bigger, but not stupendously bigger.
Thus for instance, the upper Paleolithic revolution.
Our levels of how many people are killed by people are actually more similar to where they were in the Paleolithic than where
So I want to leave you with this, what I think of as a sort of paleolithic selfie.
So you have the-- if you think about, if you go to science museum to the Paleolithic exhibit way back in the cro magnon, here are there enterprise software.
So the broader concept that I want to talk about today isn't just diet or isn't just the paleolithic , but starting to use our evolutionary past
What I call the Animal Age, or basically from the Cambrian explosion to the beginning the Paleolithic , pre-human essentially.
A lot of people that hear about the paleo diet, they just think of the paleolithic .
and as Gary Schneider put it, there needed to be an arts administration in the Paleolithic to get the scaffolding together to get the artists that high on the
And even the tool kits of the Paleolithic hunter-- the spear, the rock, the net, the throwing stone-- these are
Sad but true, individual intelligence probably peaked in the upper Paleolithic and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.
You can think of this as CSI Paleolithic .
Also, if you're truly a paleo adherent, you're not going to eat dairy products, because the ideology believes that, well, when we were in the paleolithic times,
And if you look at human behavior, no matter how impoverished or limited in our resources, even early paleolithic man could do beautiful cave drawings
My book, and this approach, is actually about something much bigger than paleo or the paleolithic or even just diet, which is starting to take evolution, human evolution,
So most of the big key transition, most of the key changes, when it comes to sleep, have nothing to do with the paleolithic .
We have medieval monk detectives, we have Roman detectives, I could have had a Paleolithic detective.