Australopithecus Research Paper

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I was introduced to the Baptist religion when I was in kindergarten. A group of people from my town’s Baptist church came to my house immediately after September 11, 2001. They chose to come to our house because they felt moved to preach the good news to my mother who was a firefighter at the time. Their ultimate goal was to spread the good news to our whole family. After they left my house, my mom came into my bedroom to tell me what she had just learned. I listened intently, scared and interested in the information that was being passed on to me. From that night on, I have wholeheartedly believed in the Holy Bible. I believe that the earth and its inhabitants were created by God. In seven days, the Lord formed the heavens and the earth and everything in between. In these seven days he created: day, night, waters, sky, …show more content…
This creature, which was around approximately three million years ago, was the first to be bipedal. There is supposed evidence that was discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s. A female skeleton was dug up that matched up with the description of the australopithecus species perfectly. This skeleton is called Lucy. Lucy is shown as a bipedal creature with extremely human-like bone structure in her body. The face of the australopithecus was still kind of flat which makes sense because they had smaller brains than the ones humans have today. After the australopithecus era, the creatures started to drift away from their ape looks and start to look more like man today. As evolution moves toward the modern man we are introduced to the homo erectus and the homo neanderthal. They were basically cavemen. They had an improved posture and a mental delay. Though most importantly, these creatures developed a hunter-gatherer society and they made and used tools. This is a remarkable improvement to man’s societal habits which did not necessarily exist until the homo erectus/homo neanderthal

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