Key Ideas About the Evolution of the Human Understanding of Time (HUT).

An overview of the Human Understanding of Time (HUT), this paper gives a quick overview of my main ideas about how our sense of time evolved beginning in the Lower Paleolithic up to today. These key ideas taken together map out how our ability to understand linear time with a past, present, future and duration came into existence. I believe that we became the dominant species on the planet because we learned to manage time and to work with time. We are the only animal that does this in a pervasive way. Our understanding allowed us to take control of our environment. Today our shared cultural sense of time is critical when it comes to creating, planning, building, and being civilized.