Homo ergaster

How did our ancestors survived through the challenges during Prehistory? What did hominids used environment to survive teaches us about? During Prehistory time, the way Homo erectus and Homo sapiens survived is similar and different but teaches us about how both used the environment to survive. Survival were necessary to our ancestors because survival is to remain alive. Survival has changed the level of the weapons that Hominids used. It also changed clothes that Hominids wear. Survival…

centuries we firmly believed in the idea of all creatures were quadrupedal and we had never seen any exception. It was by accident that we discovered a group of species that featured bipedalism named Homo sapiens. This discovery refuted our long-held belief and successfully aroused us interests. The Homo sapiens were in fact similar to us in many aspects of body traits. Therefore, the key to the mystery would most likely lie in those distinctions…

In the past hundreds years, the British colonized over 100 countries including South Africa. Did this leave any positive impact on the colonized country? The colonization of South Africa began long time ago in the sixteenth century. With around one hundred and seventy years of colonization, the British changed South Africa so much that it brought a bad impact to the South African people ("British Takes Control of the Cape”). These negative impacts could cost the South African people’s social…

The earliest convincing evidence of fire use for cooking appears at the 780,000-400,000 year old late Homo erectus site at Zhoukoudian near Beijing, China and the 400,000 year old Homo heidelbergensis or early archaic human site of Terra Amata near Nice on the French Mediterranean coast. In both cases the evidence is primarily in the form of food refuse bones that were apparently charred during…

differentiate Homo ergaster from early hominins is that they were bipedal. They did not have a flared ilium or long arms. Homo ergaster individuals had short arms and long legs like the modern human. Another physical trait that is extremely similar to that of humankind is the pelvis structure for childbirth. In order for the complication of childbearing to be reduced the question of having a small brain or a change in the pelvic structured would be what would reduce the problems during labor.…

Until 11,700 years ago our earth had been in the Pleistocene Epoch, incorporating an evolutionary surge that lead to Homo Habilis, who lived from about 2.1 to 1.5 million years ago(2). By the peak of this duration the global temperatures on earth dropped by about 5oC, plunging the entire planet into an ice age, creating vast glaciers miles deep that expanded across limitless amounts of land, locking hordes of water into impenetrable sheets of ice. However, this gave a few species on earth a…

of the foot and ankle of Chimpanzees and Homo sapiens sapiens show several distinct changes. These changes developed mainly due to the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal movement and becoming more terrestrial rather than arboreal. When researching different hominids in chronological order, it is clear that each change in our foot morphology occurred at a different time in our evolutionary history, and not all traits are exhibited in extinct lines of Homo and other hominid relatives. When…

size of the cranium changed in result of better nutrition. On another note, the width of the pelvis changed as well. In that case, the width of the pelvis changed in result of its bipedality. Therefore, bipedality determines whether or not a genus homo can walk, run, as well as their ability to create tools in order to survive. Ardipithecus ramidus         Ardipithecus ramidus also known as "Ardi" was believed to be an early human-like female…

Most palaeontologist’s agree that hominids first evolved in Africa, but disagree where Homo-sapiens emerged and this caused the origin of the modern Humans to be a fervently debated topic in Palaeontology and Anthropology. There are two theories currently regarding the origin of the modern-day humans: 1) They emerged in one place which is Africa and then migrated elsewhere which is the “Out of Africa Theory” and 2) Is that Hominids spread out of Africa and evolved worldwide which is the…

As the cerebellum began to grow, the complexity of cognition used to make tools also grew. Thus instead of having short, mode 1 tools that were very limited on the number of tasks that could be accomplished, later hominids, such as Homo heidelbergensis, possessed enough cognitive evolution to better adapt and change the way that they gathered food, by developing mode 3 tools, which were used to gather different ranges of food more efficiently. From a human behavioral…