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Learning how evolution works, it actually does provide us with great insights into human behavior.

I'm going to be talking in terms of what's called at first traits.

Traits are essentially instances of thinking, perceptions, actions, impulses, and so forth that are, the very traits are the very sort of,

when we think of Darwin and evolutionary theory, traits are what is the pass down, along

with genes. So traits are heritable, which means they can be passed down through generations.

And our traits, we are not only talking about again about

physiological qualities such as you know the shape of human heads which became had more and more over the course of

evolution room for the neocortex but we're also talking about behavioral traits, psychological traits, the way we think, the way we perceive the world, the way we act.

Traits can have great variety from common traits that are prevalent throughout a species to mutations, which means one or a very few instances of a species actually has the trait,

and yet some mutations are, in in fact all of our traits started out as mutations originally

where only a very few members of our species originally had the traits. So the traits can have great

variety and most importantly some adapt to our the purpose of evolution better

than others in terms of evolution that's known as

having greater fitness. So these traits that adapt better than other traits can lead to huge changes in species in a very short period of time.

So in our species evolution, we have in a relatively short period of time become far more cooperative,

interdependent with others and far less aggressive than we were even 50,000 years ago.

Language, which started out as a mutation

has become prevalent in our species and so forth.

So in terms of, when we think in terms of 50,000 years from an

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