Human Brain Observation Report

When first entering the Human Origins exhibit, the first thing that caught my eye was the skeleton structures of the Chimpanzee, the Neanderthal and the Modern Human. On the back of these statues there was a section titled “Meet Your Relatives”. This was interesting because it allowed everyone in the museum to compare themselves biologically to Chimpanzee’s and Neanderthals. One of the interesting facts I learned, structures of the chimpanzee and the neanderthal are similar when it comes to how their brains operate. The human brain however becomes more complex. The brains of Chimpanzees and Neanderthals only have two main functions. The right part of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left part of the brain controls the right side of the body. Although the human brain is in charge of those same functions, the human brain also controls emotions, image processing, thinking and analyzing language. This piece of information was so interesting to me because this was something I learned about Human brains through Psychology, so hearing about how their brains worked the same way our brains work shows how related we are to …show more content…
Although the Indians did not come up with each letter to spell things out with hand signal, they did use certain gestures which represented different things to them. For example, moving their hands up and down was used to represent the word “dance” and was an indication for the Indians to dance. I chose to end my reflection paper with this piece of information since we did discuss the writing system and other forms of communication as well. Indians were very smart individuals that not only used gestures to communicate but also create many of their clothes, textiles and mats on their own. I have learned no matter who you look at in the past, every individual contributed to the development of