Australopithecus africanus

Thermopylae was a natural choke point and had been the site of other battles like that of the 300 Spartans (Taylor 123). Antiochus’ army is formed of 14,500 men including 10,000 of his own infantry, 500 cavalry and, 4,000 of the Aetolian leagues’ and other allies (Taylor 124). The Roman army of 22,000 engaged the Seleucid one by initially driving Antiochus’ allies from the mountains bordering the pass (Appian, S.18). Then the Roman army properly attacked the phalanx but before long the fleeing…

Machiavelli is a man of many labels, but perhaps the most accurate is that he was a main of calculation. For all the talk of evil, cruelty and virtues, he could really be seen as the father of the cost-benefit analysis. In that same light, Machiavelli’s virtù and traditional virtues should not be seen as at odds, but rather as tools that work in tandem. To view them as wholly incompatible by nature is a narrow view at best, and woefully idealistic at worst. Indeed, they appear incompatible only…

The play “Julius Caesar” explained two men named Brutus and Antony who both presented speeches in front of their town with different meanings about the assassination of Caesar. Antony had to ask Brutus for permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral. His despairing emotion and speech drawed the crowds special attention. Antony speech does not show any praise of caesar but does show sympathy and memorable memories that caesar did for his town. This whole situation sums a complete catastrophe. If…

Tiberius and Gaius (Caius) Gracchus were the sons of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Cornelia Africana—the daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the famed hero of the Second Punic War. These brothers were reformers whose reforms would greatly alter Rome. Who are they and what exactly did they bring about? I will start with the eldest of these brothers—Tiberius Gracchus. He was born around 164 B.C. in Rome. He was the eldest boy of the surviving three children (his mother actually…

he concluded that this knee belonged to an individual who was bipedal; a species that walks on two legs. A year after his first finding, Johanson went back to Ethiopia with his own expedition team to find what will later be called, Lucy, the Australopithecus Afarensis. Lucy turned out to be one of the oldest human ancestor at the time. At first Lucy’s skeleton looked like an ape’s…

theory of evolution. However, through centuries of archeological discoveries, evolution obtained credibility. In the 1970’s, this process was expedited when two groundbreaking archeological finds were made. In 1974, Dr. Donald Johanson found Lucy (Australopithecus Afarensis) a 3.2-million-year-old fossil who…

Mary Anning was considered to be the first female paleontologist and the greatest fossil finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the…

Dr. Donald Johanson discovery of Australopithecus Afarensis in Hadar, Ethiopia and Mary Leakey’s discovery of the Laetoli footprints in Olduvai Gorge, Ethiopia proved beyond any plausible doubt that human species had evolved and Lucy was one of the species that bridged this gap between pre-humans…

proved their theory by digging up fossils of these ancestors. The differences between the hominids: Australopithecus afarensis This species of hominids was discovered during the 1970s. The fossils found was believed to have been dated back to 3 million – 4 million years ago. The Australopithecus Afarensis is thought to be the oldest hominids species to have ever lived. Australopithecus Afarensis…

features that are associated with arborealism (Australopithecus, 2000). Africanus was next it was classified as having combined primitive characteristics with derived features associated with the human pad-to-side precision pinch and handling grips (Australopithecus, 2000). Anamensis lastly is a proximal hand phalanx that is curved and has strong ridges for the attachment of the flexor sheath (Leakey et al 1998). Both features are present in Australopithecus a farensis and are considered…