Writer
Having encyclopedic interest in the humanities, the life sciences, the social sciences, anthropology, prehistory, ancient history, philosophy, and languages, C. Odell Smith has lived in Latin America and Europe and travelled widely in Egypt, the Middle East, and the Far East. Holder of a PhD in Germanics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Smith has conducted extensive research in evolutionary theory, paleoanthropology, archaeology, zoology, psychology, linguistics, and cultural evolution in pursuit of his hypothesis that the most essentially human traits are expressions less of human evolution than of life in human society. His investigations have led to the development of an intriguing new theory of human evolution based on the hypothesis of the Cyclical Interdependent Regeneration of essential human traits in developmental interaction with the emerging cultural spheres of Paleolithic society.
The Naked Australopiths 1 examines the presently available hypotheses on hair loss in Australopithecus to conclude that hairlessness would have needed to be supported by fundamental cultural practices in order to be sustainable. Hairlessness may therefore have been instrumental in generating the first Paleolithic societies.
“How Prehistoric Obstetric Practices Gave Humans Bipedalism and Big Brains: An Evolutionary Anatomical Review” looks at human bipedalism and the bigger, more complex brain as evident products of emerging prehistoric obstetric practices.
Cuenca, Ecuador & Hillsboro, OR, USA
May 20, 2020
Craig Smith