Birds and Humans Through Time
The How Birds Made Us Human hypothesis suggests that birds have had a huge influence on human evolution and the development of human cultures. It is a broad idea with many possible examples that scientists are still exploring. In 2019, Kost and Hussain described a three-part relationship between humans, birds, and the environment. They called their research area Archaeo-ornithology . How Birds Made Us Human looks at the many ways birds may have shaped human bodies, cultures, and technologies. It brings together research from fields like Paleontology , Archaeology , Ethnography , and History . We explore the following relationships with birds through time: Mesozoic Birds and the Rise of Primates Birds and mammals evolved together for over 100 million years before the first primates appeared on the scene. Often they would have shared habitats, and so birds would have interacted with our early mammal ancestors as competitors and predators. T...