Reflection#2: paradigms

Reflection #2: Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
The invention of tools; the invention of the wheel and the discovery of fire are just a few of the factors that were able to skew or direct changes from one paradigm to the next. These inventions and discoveries were responsible for some changes towards the ancestral man becoming the being that they are today; that of the upright man and the talking man. Other variables include mutation and natural selection. It became obvious that the early man was not in genetic equilibrium as there was evolution taking place and thus a shift in paradigm.
Today’s new inventions are viewed as technological advancements, likewise should inventions of the far past. Technological advances are created to make doing things easier for an individual. The time when there were no tools was one paradigm where early man mainly gathered their food; later the invention of tools saw the beginning of another. In this paradigm one shows the early man hunting animals for food subsequently getting different type of nourishment in the form of protein and hence feeding the body better. Feeding the body meant that, the head and brain would increase in size, and the brain would get better fed: causing it to grow, more neurons synapse with other cells, and thus creating a functionally better brain. Since the tools were used as weapons which were better suited for a particular body type. The other body type would not fear well and the preferred more upright would survive and the population would evolve into that specific type. Through the production of fire; a shift in paradigm took place. By using the fire to cook meat, they no longer had to tear in the raw flesh like lower animals. So that teeth used for tearing slowly got smaller. Fire allowed them to have some power over the animals to better protect themselves.
I think that with each paradigm shift, a characteristic was lost and another was obtained. Every invention or discovery aided in the evolution of the early man. One can postulate that with each shift the early man changed to what would make them survive at that time. What was subsequently evident was that as they grew upright and the head and brain got bigger, there were problems in the area of delivering an offspring to multiply the population. They had to deliver the young ones at a earlier stage of development servicing another change. I think that now that they were upright their food sources changed and so did there whole way of life and thinking as the brain development improved. I think the invention of the wheel directed the paradigm of transportation, employment and dwelling. Now that there is a means to travel for farther distances, people no longer had to live close to where they worked. This changed the whole dynamic of where there were jobs that area would become over-populated. Finally it can be viewed that there were changes and shifts from one paradigm to the next early man was changed accordingly so as to survive.