HUMAN COLONY FORMATION 



in a biologically significant manner. It is only upon 

 recognition of human society as a development con- 

 sistent with the established pattern of evolution, that 

 its nature can be understood and its future charted. 



We think of human society customarily as an associa- 

 tion of individuals rather than as a more or less in- 

 tegrated entity. If society were indeed nothing more 

 than an association, its total characteristics should not 

 differ greatly from the weighted summation of the 

 characteristics of the individuals composing it. Yet 

 there are many considerations showing that man is hu- 

 man in the fullest sense of the word only, because of 

 the characteristics that he has gained as a result of such 

 integration as has already taken place. Let us then for 

 the moment consider the probable history of human 

 colony formation, as based on findings developed from 

 anthropological and sociological studies, as well as ex- 

 amine it from the point of view of the underlying 

 thermodynamic-biological considerations. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE 



Today there is little doubt that some several million 

 years ago the ancestors of present-day man consisted of 

 one or several species of primates. While some of the 

 details of the physical and even more so of the mental 

 makeup of these ancestors is not known, there is no 

 reason for us to believe that they differed in any dras- 

 tic fashion from the other then existing primates. Nor 



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