Morphology is the study of the structure and form of organisms. Six skulls were looked at to be determined identified using morphological characteristics. This can determine the genus and species and time the hominid was likely alive. It can also help anthropologists know more about what the living conditions were like in the time that that species was alive. Traits like a sagittal keel or large molars can show that the food that that species consumed was likely tough and required a lot of chewing. The molars that are present in older hominids would slowly go away as species adapted to softer foods, as would the sagittal keel. The brain size would show the intelligence that a species was likely to have, as well as its proximity to modern humans, who have rather large craniums. When analyzing these six skulls…
The movie “Kong Skull Island” was release march 10 2017 and the opening view making around 52.5 million. The King Kong icon goes back to 1933 which made it first movie. What Kong Skull Island was about and how I feel about the movie and predicting on what may happen in the future after this movie was created, the following will be explain. The movie was set before my time around the abandoning of the vietnam war when they found a untouched territory on the earth.The goal was to see if we can…
The first qualitative test conducted was on the upper edge of the eye orbit. The first time this observation took place, the results were that the edge was blunt. There was another observation done on the same part of the skull and the final determination of the shape of the upper edge of the eye is that it has a sharp edge. This qualitative observation points to the skull being from a female. The next observational test was conducted on the actual shape of the eye orbit. Two analytical…
The Piltdown hoax was an archaeological site in England in 1908 and 1912 human, ape and other mammal fossils were found together. In 1913 at a nearby site an ape's jaw with a canine tooth that was worn down like a human's. British paleontologist gad the idea that a creature that had a human cranium and an ape's jaw existed. In 1953 a Piltdown man was exposed as a forgery, the skull had in fact been modern and the teeth had been filed down. Charles Dawson was the archaeologist who brought in the…
Management and considerations of a patient with raised intracranial pressure due to traumatic brain injury will be discussed. The CT scan results reported that Oliver has a skull fracture and intracranial haematoma. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause damage to the skull and brain tissue. Primary injury occurs on the time of impact, which includes a fracture in the skull, brain tissue lacerations and rupture of vessels. The secondary injury may later on manifest and are the result of the…
Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which the bones in a baby’s skull join together at an early stage. This happens when the baby’s brain is fully formed. As the baby brains grow, the skull becomes deformed. The spaces between a baby’s skull bones are filled with a flexible material called sutures. The sutures allow the skull to grow as the baby’s brain grow. At the age of two, a child’s skull bones begin to join together because the sutures become bone. When this happens, the suture is…
Artificial cranial deformation—or the practice of intentionally altering the shape of a person’s skull—has been practiced by Neanderthals about 40,000 years ago until very recently, maybe even still today. People on every continent except Antarctica have done it, making heads more cylindrical, cone-shaped, and ridge, bumpier or flat depending on the area. (Romero, et al 2010: 2-5) This paper argues that Mayans practiced cranial deformation to show an association with a particular social group.…
The position of the foramen magnum, the length of the leg, the shape of the spine and pelvis are four of the seven steps of bipedality. The position of the foramen magnum is located in the bottom of the skull, near the teeth in humans, and in the rear area for apes. This distinguish humans and apes because it demonstrates that the human head sits on the body rather than on the front of the body, like apes. The shape of the spine is s-shaped for humans and c-shaped for apes. Specifically, in…
looking for answers to solve the recent missing/homicide case. The backlogs are backed up of missing person cases in the district police. A middle-aged couple was out doing an early morning jog when they discovered a human skull buried in the dirt. They claimed to have been out jogging in the local Chesterville park. They stated that they stopped to get a drink when they stumbled upon what appeared to be a human skull and a tibia. They called the police. When the police arrived at the scene they…
-The axial skeleton consists of a the skull, hyoid bone, auditory ossicles, vertebral column (spine), sternum bone, and the ribs. -The appendicular skeleton consists of the shoulder girdles, upper limbs, pelvic girdles, and lower limbs. -Bones are living tissue that make up the skeleton. They are primarily composed of three types of tissue. These three types are compact tissue, cancellous tissue, and subchondral tissue. -Compact tissue is the outer layer of bones and is harder than the other…