Many people have wondered what actually makes us human. Is it our DNA, or maybe the size of our brain and how it functions? Could it be our ability for speech? Many individuals have studied endlessly trying to answer the difficult question, “What makes us human? In the NOVA documentary explores differences between skull and bone structure of the body, as well as the brain itself. Another area explored is how our brains process and react differently among species. Scientists have investigated our DNA to studying MRI’s of the brain patterns. Human comparison to other species were another area explores regarding abilities for tool making and the reaction while creating these tools. Researchers desperate to answer the long-asked question, What makes us human”, have even journeyed to the possibility if could it be through our ability for speech.
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Although structurally humans and Neanderthals are equivalent to one another, however, are very different from the neck up. While the human head is circular in shape, the Neanderthals is shaped like a football and sits lower on the shoulders. Since our brains are generally the same size of each other Daniel Lieberman from Harvard University wondered if perhaps the “one possibility is our brain. Our brains aren't any bigger than Neanderthals'. They might have had a different structure.” (PBS, 2012)
An anthropologist named David Frye from Kanas University when asked if he could tell by viewing bones of an individual “if they could talk or not?”(PBS, 2012), he stated, “Well, with various levels of success, yes.” (PBS, 2013) Of course, David Frye displayed a tiny bone found in the throat called the hyoid, which is a bone that gives us the ability to speak. David Frye also believed since Neanderthals were able to make tools which entail a thought process. The Neanderthals knew they were making tools, not just clanging
Although structurally humans and Neanderthals are equivalent to one another, however, are very different from the neck up. While the human head is circular in shape, the Neanderthals is shaped like a football and sits lower on the shoulders. Since our brains are generally the same size of each other Daniel Lieberman from Harvard University wondered if perhaps the “one possibility is our brain. Our brains aren't any bigger than Neanderthals'. They might have had a different structure.” (PBS, 2012)
An anthropologist named David Frye from Kanas University when asked if he could tell by viewing bones of an individual “if they could talk or not?”(PBS, 2012), he stated, “Well, with various levels of success, yes.” (PBS, 2013) Of course, David Frye displayed a tiny bone found in the throat called the hyoid, which is a bone that gives us the ability to speak. David Frye also believed since Neanderthals were able to make tools which entail a thought process. The Neanderthals knew they were making tools, not just clanging