Hominid

nation of Georgia in 2013 they found a 1.8 million year old skull that has been named skull 5. The anthropologists that are studying it believe that it belongs to our genus of Homo. The reason it is name skull five because it is the fifth example of a hominid that is a bipedal primate mammal that could be classified as walking upright. Stone tools and animal bones have been found at the excavation site as well. This is important because this could change the evolutionary scale and charts by…

Language plays an instrumental role when it comes to human communication as it ensures the accomplishment of numerous activities. Notably, language makes sure that a consensus is reached whenever people communicate as the information being relayed is comprehended in an easy manner. If language did not exist life would be cumbersome as an agreement would not be realized and this would be disastrous (Formigari, 2004). Apparently, the ultimate origin of human language has not yet been decided as a…

limestone composition, which is a created environment for preserving fossil records. It is at Koonalda that the earliest human impressions of human hand incisions swirled throughout the interior that archaeologists can date the first documentation of hominid conception of abstract cognitive function and expression. This cave art marks the initial dive of humanity into a world of higher cognitive function and interpretation of the surrounding world and their place in…

Humans, animals, plants and all kinds of creatures live in this planet relevant to each other in an established order. To maintain the order and to keep the planet habitable we are responsible for our actions against other creatures. This leads to the point that we have some moral obligations towards animals. To clarify, we as humans can not cause unnecessary pain that even Edwin Locke who is against animal rights agrees upon (Edwin Locke, 1). However, these moral obligations do not include meat…

Phoenix: “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on, that’s who we really are.” Our ability to critically think about our behavior and make choices is what makes us human and sets us apart from our hominid ancestors. In fact, as far as other species are concerned, there is no concept of “good” and “evil”; there is predator and prey, threatening and safe, dominant and submissive. Morality is not a factor at play in the animal kingdom. All that…

VERY advanced society. They even buried the dead beneath their houses... sounds extremely terrifying to me. Men and women were equal in the labor department and they both had low life expectancies. In the Stone Age we have evidence of tool making hominids from about 2 million years ago. Most of these human societies consisted of hunters and gathers which were constantly on the move. They had no significant material possessions because there…

As time goes by, the general human nature and sense of values of a person has are open to fluctuation. Usually, Teenage years of a person are a valid example of this because there is a multitude of opportunities and realizations open to them--both positive and negative. Many events in adolescence cause strong emotion or difficult decisions and it is human nature to use previous experiences to help give us another eye on these situations, but what about looking at the past? That is, B.C. As we…

Before the middle of the twentieth century, most astronomers thought there wasn’t any history to the universe, and how the many features existed today. In spite of that there were disagreements involving this non-evidential theory that was not proven by many. Through all the research/studies, scientists call the first of all, historical dates, “Big Bang” which lasted around 13.7 billion years ago. Although we may not know what happened before the “Big Bang,” Christian provides us with many…

and talked about many different topics. One of the many interesting things I saw and learned about in the museum is the the fossil dating and about their relative and/or absolute age. In order to find the age of the special kind of fossil named hominid, there are 2 different types of techniques. The first type is called relative, which shows a fossil as older in age or younger depending on the materials that are surrounding the fossil. The second type is called absolute which shows the real and…

Charles Darwin is a scientist that came up with the theory of natural selection to explain variation and evolution. Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype (Zimmer&Emlen, 2013). This means that in an environment where the condition is constantly changing, species that stay in that environment and use it as their habitat adapt to the changes of the environment to survive the changes and their off springs are also able to…