HOMINID SOCIAL by ALTERNATE MODEL DEVELOPMENT OF

Man has long speculated about the evolutionary pathway taken by our hominid ancestors. The search for human origins has J~d many people to the fArthest reaches of the world in an effort to determine what our early ancestors looked like and how they lived. The discoveries of human paleontologists have provided us with a fairly accurate idea as to what these early hominids looked like. Rather than solving problems, however, these discoveries have seemed to create a plethora of theoretical speculation and totally confuse the picture. Speculations on the evolution of hominid social structure have become quite popular in recent years. The primary concern of these theorists has been the development of a model which would accurately depict the adaptive strategy of early man. This paper is a response to the models which have been pro-posed. I will concern myself with one model in particular