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caio  ·  4674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: What are the top ten most positively influential events in human history?
Walking upright

Birth of language

Invention of printing press

Birth of Isaac Newton

The indian independence movement

Invention of the transistor

Monty Python

Birth of Carl Sagan

Invention of computers and the internet

Apollo 11





b_b  ·  4674 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I would include also the aqueduct. And sanitation. And the roads. And the rule of law.
AnSionnachRua  ·  4674 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I was going to include upright bipedalism but decided not to given that it is not exclusive to human hominids (and indeed was around long before any of the Homo genus walked the plains; it is thought the Australopithecines were the first to walk on their hind legs).
caio  ·  4674 days ago  ·  link  ·  
There are also the Bonobo apes, chimps who can walk some distances on their hind legs.[1] I included it because, even though not particular to humans, it was still decisive in the history of humanity.

And because of 2001: A Space Odyssey. http://youtu.be/xd3-1tcOthg?t=50s

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo