From Stone tools to the Digital Age

1. PHENOTYPE:
In biology the "genotype" is the
genetic makeup of an organism, the
“phenotype” is how genetic and
environmental influences come
together to create an organism’s
outward physical appearance and
behavior.

2. EXTENDED PHENOTYPE
Chimp weapons, birdsong and termite mounds can be
viewed as extensions of the animal bodies that made them.
Children of the Borena tribe in Ethiopia on a termite mound.
Photo: Hemis/Alamy

3. TECHNOLOGY:
From Palaeolithic stone tools…
Levallois and biface tools.
Photo: Royal Holloway, University of London

4. …to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Photo: CERN/LHC/GridPP

5. EXTENDED MIND:
From ancient languages…
Proto-Elamite, used around 5000 years ago in a region now in the
south west of modern Iran. Photo: Louvre

6. …to the digital age!
First Live Event Technical and Production Conference(LETPC) in South Africa