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Homo Neanderthalensis: Understanding Its Species and Importance in Human Evolution Homo neanderthalensis, more commonly known as Neandertals, are the closest extinct relative of the genus species Homo sapiens. Homo neanderthalensis lived approximately 30,000 to 125,000 years ago, populating regions of Europe and southwestern Asia. In 1856, near Dusseldorf, Germany, the very first Homo neanderthalensis remains were found in a cave in the Neander Valley, pronounced Neander Tal in old German),…

Dardanelles, Bab el Mandeb, the Strait of Hormuz – and the sheltered seas – the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian/Arabian Gulf – that provided the best routes connecting the different extremities of the vast Eurasian/African continent. In addition, the location of this region is full of rich river valleys and productive and was an important source of cotton as well as textile industries into the twentieth century. For more specifically. The Middle East…

History has encountered a great deal of influential leaders such as Julius Caesar , Hannibal and Alexander the Great. Surprisingly enough one of the world’s greatest warriors is always left out of the equation , Genghis Khan of the Mongolian Tribe. Today in our society , they are portrayed as savages who had the sole purpose of wiping out entire cultures , destroying villages and murdering the most people possible. While part of this statement was true , let’s not forget that the old world was…

Jared Diamond the author of the best seller “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” explores and distinguishes the ultimate factors that explain the broad patterns that led to the emergence and dominance of Europe. Throughout the book, Diamond argues that the dominance of Europe since the Stone ages was caused by environmental and geographical factors. As stated by Diamond: “ Environment molds history” – he reiterates his ideas by making use of themes like agriculture, the…

brought the first pigs to the Americas and during the following years of colonization and the habits of free-ranging livestock, the pigs escaped their enclosures and established populations of wild hogs, which spread. In early portions of the 1900s, Eurasian wild hogs were introduced for hunting purposes and they too escaped their enclosures, leading to larger interbred populations that spread…

Human evolution is the time by which humans change overtime. Humans develop characteristics and traits that enhance their abilities and chances for survival. Physical and behavior traits have been shown to have some relations with the common ancestors of apes. While human evolution occurs it coexists with the study of population genetics. Population genetics occurs when frequencies in alleles between populations are distributed. Plenty of researchers have used these two ideas to study how…

Introduction Dogs have become man 's best friend and a great companion long time ago. Dog (Canis familiaris) has accompanied Human beings all over the world since its domestication 15,000 years ago, today it is the most generous and loving caring animal on earth with a great impact on the environment. They have been helping us with animals herd on a farm, and some of them serve as watchdogs, playful family pets. Dogs have been trained as guard dogs in peacetime by the U.S. Army and other…

A closer look at world maps depicts 193 sovereign states with disputed, but relatively stable borders (Florea, 2014). However, there exist more than 20 political units which are without international recognition. Moreover, they were not accepted to United Nations. Such units are academically known as pseudo-states, de facto states or quasi-states (O´Loughlin et al., 2011). “Conceptually, de facto states are separatist entities that exercise a monopoly over the use of violence in a given…

Is the U.S. as free as most Americans think? Or, is the U.S. closer to Oceania, the dystopian country in the novel 1984? Is the privacy of homes really that private? Both 1984’s society and the modern societies have lots in common when it comes to surveillance. The U.S. government could be considered very similar to Big Brother (1984’s government) in that they can track citizens at any moment, have any information on any person with a few clicks of a button, and watch people who could be trouble…

McNeill's review of Guns, Germs, and Steel, McNeill argues that some of the ideas that make up the supporting arguments of the book were misinterpreted. For example, McNeill points out that eighty percent of all humanity resided in the Eurasian continent. Therefore, it only makes sense that Eurasia was home to the most advanced societies. Then Jared Diamond should answer the question, “Why Europe is both the heart and mother of the world's most developed modern societies?” McNeill then…