Hominid

In order to understand Aquinas’ metaphysics, one must understand the difference between essence and existence. According to Aquinas, there are two senses of ‘being’: one sense is that “those things [are called beings] that are sorted into the ten categories (of Aristotle); in the other sense [calling something a being] signifies the truth of propositions” (Aquinas, I). Then, Aquinas goes on to say that essence is derived from a being in the first sense. Because a being can be divided into ten…

their extinction. Homo neanderthalensis is the genus and species name of Neanderthals, and they lived from 200,000 years ago to 40,000 years in Europe and into west Asia going up into Russia. The first fossil evidence of Neanderthal or even early hominids showed up during 1829 inside Feldhofer Cave located in…

Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? In the year 373 BCE, the Roman Historian Aelian record that the city of Helike’s animals were behaving strangely. He wrote that the city’s rats, snakes, centipedes, and weasels had all fled after several days of increased activity. Five days later, the city was devastated by an earthquake that destroyed the entire area. In Edo, modern-day Tokyo, Japan, catfish were reported to have “acted weird” before earthquakes in both 1855 and 1923. In February…

Throughout history fire was frequently used for cooking, light, heat, and weapon making. From 8000 BCE to 1900 CE, the use of fire was also changing rapidly. The invention of fire, firefighting, forging, greek fire thrown by the Trebuchet, and steam engines were major impacts on global political and social interactions. The invention of fire greatly affected and changed social interactions by changing the way humans interacted with their environment. From the first humans to 600 BCE, fire gave…

Anthropology is the education of humans. Through the study of anthropology, our goal is to better understand human culture and the evolutionary aspects of human biology. Within the training of anthropology, there are four major subfields. These subfields are: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, and Physical (Biological) Anthropology. This paper will be informing us on these four subfields of anthropology so that we may have a healthier understanding of each one.…

The streets sparkled with shattered glass, gleaming with a crimson glow as the flames danced into the night. The date is November 9th, 1938, and this is the Night of Broken Glass, also known as the Kristallnacht. The embers of hatred have began to engulf the country of Germany, as the weakened loser of the first world war ignited the flames of bloodshed once again. This once powerful country had been dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, oppressed by the allies that feared another war that…

order to protect themselves from harm. Humans have worked together in order to benefit society as a whole and to be a strong, unified force against the continuous challenges of life (Roye). Society always will be a safe haven for humans. Primitive hominids realized that living in a group provides a greater chance of survival. Even though the human race is not faced with major threats to survival today, isolation, nevertheless, is still a force in which humans are uncomfortable with. Isolation…

ancestors struggled and sacrificed themselves to get them there. It could be argued that this human wouldn’t be at all the human we currently know. So call them something different, it won’t matter. Present day humans are drastically different to hominids tens of thousands of years ago and according to The Curve future humanoids will be unrecognizable to us in thousands and even more likely hundreds of years from now. A hundred years is but a drop in the massive bucket of time that human history…

What would happen if we lost eighty percent of the world’s population due to starvation? It sounds impossible, however, our everyday decisions are contributing to this insane and preventable forthcoming. There has always been a strong debate as to whether or not we would be able to feed ourselves in the future, in the sense of there being enough food. Nowadays, many of the world’s hungriest countries and populations depend on the help of others to get their necessities. Earth is a cruel…

There are many different species of non-human primates. Each primate has its own characteristics, traits, and behaviors that establish its identity. Throughout history, however, primate species have evolved over time and there have been different research studies to see how primates have evolved. Northern white-cheeked gibbons are one of the closest relatives to human beings. White cheeked gibbon’s characteristics, traits, and behaviors explain the complexity of their species and how they are…