The Mobility Hypothesis: Evolutionary Perspectives

As can be seen from its multiple synonyms, adjustability, versatility, flexibility, adaptability, etc., mobility is one of the core engines of human biological and cultural evolution. It all started with bipedal gate, manifested itself transfer of raw material through space, generated mobility technologies with far reaching consequences that will very likely result in a new speciation event if humans colonize another planet. This brief presentation outlines the long-term evolutionary implications of mobility through the formulation of a simple parsimonious model articulated on three facets of the evolutionary process: • Speciation event • Adaptive radiation • Founder effect The model dubbed “SARFE” and applied to hominins in this paper, is testable and applicable to virtually all aspects of human biological and cultural evolution