Compare And Contrast Marxism And Homo Naledi

There are two main ways of looking at the tempo of evolution and they are phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. These two ideas are opposite, however, they are not entirely different concepts; it is like they are at two ends of a continuum. Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium provide different ways of determining how fast changes occur. Phyletic gradualism “holds that daughter species unusually originates through a progressive series of small, gradual transformations of parental species” (Conroy, Pontzer, 108, 2012). This means that changes occur gradually over time, rather than spontaneously occurring. The transformation includes nearly all of the ancestral population, and takes place over a large part of their geographic …show more content…
Homo naledi has a cranial capacity of 513 and the highest Australopithecine cranial capacity is 493, whereas the lowest cranial capacity of the early Homo material (without including the Homo naledi material) is 610. The palate breadth of Homo naledi is 44. This could be similar to either Australopithecines or the early Homo material. The lowest palate breadth size of Australopithecines and the early Homo material is 40, however the range for Australopithecines is lower than the range for the early Homo material. This leads to the conclusion that Homo naledi is better suited with the early Homo material than with the …show more content…
This is because the Homo naledi material is more closely related to that of the early Homo material, and not as closely related to the Australopithecine material. “The shared derived features that connect H. naledi with other members of Homo occupy most regions of the H. naledi skeleton and represent distinct functional systems, including locomotion, manipulation, and mastication” (Berger et al, 2015). I agree with this statement because both cranially and post-cranially, it can be proved that Homo naledi is indeed more similar to Homo than to the