The First Two Cultures

Homo sapiens are 99.9% identical. We all consist of the same basic anatomy, meaning there are 7.125 billion genetically identical humans today. On the other hand, there are over 6.500 spoken languages. More than 21 major religions. Too many music genres for our ears to choose from. More dance styles than your body could attempt to try in a life time. And multiple ways to cook the same piece of chicken thigh.

 But most interestingly, we have an unfathomable number of cultures all around the world that have existed, are existing, and will exist. 

 You see compared to the world's age, the time we lived as a whole hardly counts for anything. So how did we evolve and differ so much in the little time our mankind got to live? Better yet, how are we identical yet so different? If our consciousness is emitted from our brain, how could it be any different from any other human's consciousness?

 Beats me really. But here is the deal, we should try to date back the time where the first culture was split. Our first cultural dissimilarity. When the people who used to live together decided they didn't want to live the same way together any longer, the infamous breakup. If of course, that was the simple way things had happened. And maybe from there we could make a cultural map or tree, we could uncover the mysteries of the old cultures and change our current ones.

This might seem far fetched. Surely there were many groups and cultures long before history even began, long before writing and perhaps even speaking. But there is no harm in trying to find the very first cultural split we can discover. I know I will be working on that. And that takes me to our first lead, the very beginning. THE BIG BANG.