Hominid

that all human species originated from Africa, and many statements are Afrocentric. In the textbook, the author rarely focuses on the similarity between species, but mainly on the diverse groups of hominids and other species. The book explains the various cultures, habitats and fossil records of hominids and how they relied on hunter-gathering and then subsistence farming to survive. However, there is a big difference in the dates between the article versus the textbook. For example, the article…

For the duration of the winter months, people tend to develop habits specific the season. They make attempts to hide themselves under their thick covers in the icy mornings to avoid having to leave them behind. They put on a few, or perhaps more than a few, pounds to insulate their cold bones. Bitter or melancholy moods set in to reflect the weather. In Margaret Atwood’s poem, “February”, she makes use of similes and metaphors to compare humans to animals in order to emphasize her gloomy,…

Paranthropus boisei was an early hominin and lived in East Africa. The dates range from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago. Paleoanthropologists actually found the first fossils of Paranthropus boisei in 1955. (what does it mean to be human) However, not until anthropologist Mary Leakey discovered the well-preserved cranium OH5 at Olduvas Gorge, Tanzania in 1959. It was dated to 1.75 millions of year. Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey classed the specimen as Zinjanthropus. Later on, Louis…

Do we evolve from humans, many people think we do but we don’t we might share an ancestor with them, and i also don’t think we evolve from them. The importance of this study is to figure out how, if, and do we evolve from monkeys. How it could affect society is if apes are our ancestors then that might mean that some random ape in the world could be our ancestor and we don’t even know it, and if we do evolve from humans how are their monkeys still,and they're not humans. Since apes are our…

Lucy: Our First Ancestor I was at a museum when I first heard of Lucy. I had heard that she was an ape that walked on two feet 3 million tears ago. But after doing more research, I found out more fact about her. On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson, the archaeologist that found Lucy, was actually looking for fossils at the site of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and his colleague Tom Gray were driving back from their fossil hunt when Johanson spotted a forearm bone in the ground. Consequently,…

culture, and art. Three of the most important achievements though, are farming, discovery of copper, and writing. These are some of the most crucial pieces of human history, and for any reasons. Farming was one of the most important tools for the hominids of the neolithic age. It supplied them with a steady source of food so they didn’t have to rely on hunting animals and gathering plants all the time. The cause of this sudden agricultural transformation can be traced back to the rising…

Four million years ago, a few ape like animals that began to walk upright taking the first faltering steps towards becoming human beings.Time and changing, and the struggle for survival continued shaping us. Along the way, social groups became the key to survival, and the human family evolved as pleasure of mating. In their struggle for survival these creatures found saving advantages in a new way of walking.instead of scampering on all fours, as usual, they stood upright and gradually and no…

For many years scientists have been trying to discover new evidence that we humans are the common ancestors of homosapians from the past. Scientists went from researching and studying artifacts to examining ancient fossils. So far the evidence that has been uncovered highly support the fact that we are related to the “humans” of the past. Homosapians have evolved rapidly over the past three million years to what we are now, modern humans. It can be proven from primary sources that have been…

Creationism is the belief that the universe along with everything in it was created by acts of divine creation. A good example would be how the Christians believe that God is the creator of all things. Evolution is the process of different species developing and diversifying over a period of time to adapt to their environment. A good example would be us. According to scientists we have ancestors that trace back to six million-years-ago to a group called the Ardipithecus group which is our…

kill at a distance. According to Robert S. Corruccini and Henry H. McHenry in “Knuckle Walking Hominids Ancestors,” “Humans still retain features from a probable knuckle walking ancestor.” However, and some point in human history early humans began to walk upright as modern humans do. According to "Evolution of hominid bipedalism and prehensile capabilities" by Russell H. Tuttle, “The earliest hominids would be recognized as diurnally terrestrial bipeds that stood with full extension of the…