preface of human evolution
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The original name for this book was “From Stones to Clouds.” The title paid homage to the course developer who envisioned it as a place to examine the historical origins of human communication from early humans’ use of stone tools to today’s practice of data storage “in the clouds.” However, as I began to develop the course materials for the first year of our program, I realized that, while the historical overview was important, it was not enough to provide a solid foundation for the entire program’s curriculum. I began to re-vision the original intent to consider the origins of the discipline of human communication studies. To this end, students are able to see that theories are not scary, ethereal “things” but, rather, fluid processes that change with the times to trace the historical roots of communication theory to understand its practicality today.
This book is a companion text for Introduction to Communication at Ontario Tech University. While I found several good books that addressed some of the purposes for the course, I did not find a text that combined theory and practice from a Canadian perspective, or one that combined good seminal research with recent scholarship. I felt it was crucial to read about and understand innovative research because of the university’s mission to create an environment for students to pursue inquiry, application, and discovery in an innovative and market-driven institution.
This book started out as an idea over tea. The late Dr. Tony Chan and I, as the first two communication faculty, spent many hours discussing the possibilities for curriculum that responded to the needs of our students and their potential employers. Because the Communication program was the newest at Ontario Tech we felt that our course materials must reflect the innovative culture of the university and the Ministry of Education in Ontario. The program had to be more than just another applied professional degree. The idea for the textbook emerged from these conversations. Many people helped me in this process. Students helped me evaluate my course content and acted as editors for the final chapters. My colleagues helped to write chapters that were not part of my immediate expertise. Sarah Stokes, Learning Facilitator in Learning Innovation at Ontario Tech, introduced me to OER and helped me turn the original text into the open access version.
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It is common knowledge that our human ancestors descended from apes. It is also commonly thought that in the course of this transition, some ape men left the forests, in which their ancestors were living, and entered a life in the African savanna. In the course of this transition, so the story goes, our ancestors started walking upright on two legs, started making tools, and gradually became what we are today. I will be examining the evidence for these assertions, and in particular I will be looking at the evidence for what our ancestors were like and where we came from. In doing so I will try and dispel some of the confusion many people are in because of the long history and great variety of fossil apes, the group from which we arose. In particular, I will be looking at the evidence for our last common ancestor with the apes to try and discover when and where we came from. This will entail over 20 million years of human evolution dating back to the time when apes first appeared in the fossil record.