An evolutionary theory of human knowledge progress: The new combinations of anthropology, archaeology and economics

Abstract

How have human knowledge, technology and living standards made progress? In this paper, we focus on the Palaeolithic Age when human knowledge started to progress greatly, and we examine whether the theory of knowledge progress in the modern economy can be applied to the Palaeolithic Age. If this theory can be applied to the earlier era, it means that there is a high possibility that we can explain the advances in human knowledge over about 3.3 million years (or more) by the theory.

Keywords

• knowledge progress
• technological paradigm
• Palaeolithic Age
• innovations
• B52
• O10