Hominid

The origins of human life are riddled with mystery, complexity, and controversy. Archeologists and historians have been able to unearth clues from beginnings of Human civilization in spite of various contentions. Evolution has transformed virtually every organism to grace planet Earth, and the evolutionary process that led to the modern day human commenced in the continent of Africa. Furthermore, as humanity developed the sexual dimorphism between both sexes led to varying roles for males and…

Gender in the Media Media plays a crucial role in modern society whether it is spreading information or entertaining the audience in shows, commercials, advertisements, and the internet. However, many of these contain messages that can alter people’s opinions towards certain issues. Men have been shown in many commercials dealing with business products such as cars and cigarettes. On the other hand, commercials promoting cosmetic and domestic products are where women appear the most in. This…

Archaeology is a branch of anthropology which is rebuilds the daily life of people who lived in the past to explain the changing of the culture, and the gender behaviours, roles and attitudes in our culture. Gender archaeology is looking for evidence of gender roles and gender relations to help us understand the values and the relations between the genders in our society and what did each gender do in the past society, and how the society seeing women and men. Gender relations and roles, in all…

Across the globe there have been many factors that have created the modern human (Homo Sapiens). These factors have influenced what the definition of culture, heritage, and race are. The ethical and civil denominations are what have made humans, human─ but, stopping to examine what exactly has influenced contemporary society, the manipulations of evolution, religion, and the suppression of women, are the prevailing determinants to the creation of modern humans. When taking the widely adopted,…

adolescence in this early hominid was much shorter than the modern human. A study by anthropologist Christine Tardieu found that by measuring the femur and its development you could get a good indication of how these early ancestors developed. Her study found that the femur of the Australopithecus afarensis grew much faster, and in a less complete way (in her report she says that there is a certain growth spurt and development missing in A. afarensis, as well as other early hominids) which…

rocks that were broken down slightly. They had very little dimension to them, having no real purpose. They were used to kill and maim animals but were not as precise as more modernized societies. This is where the most difference is shown between the hominid species. It is clear to an archaeologist which tool comes from which species of people or from which time period based off physical presence of it. Was the tool banged up on other rocks or was the tool carved, crafted and sharpened to a…

Anatomically modern humans have been on the move for thousands of years acquiring many adaptations, skin being one of the most complex of them. She travels to the aAfrican savannah where early hominids began life. She questions how we went from fairly hairy primates to fairly naked ones. Firstly, she examines how these animals who inhabit the savannah stay cool when the temperature reaches well over 100 degrees. She believes that humans would…

Dennett asks the reader to image a hominid which mistakenly asks for help and receives no reply from another hominid within a earshot of a distance, yet it has a self. To the hominid delight it answered its own question thru the request simulating the helping utterance that a request from another would react to. The simple example demonstrates how the software…

the first hominoid discovered in near completed form. The Taung Child, discovered in the 1920’s, the discovery of “The Hobbit”, homo-erectus, and Turkana Boy, the most complete skeleton ever found. In discovering various fossilized remains early hominids, our past begins to unravel itself and history lends us its records to try to help us find out about our past, and in turn closing the gap of the evolutionary line. The Taung Child, a fossil skull, was discovered in the 1920’s. Australian-born…

What I have gathered thus far from my time on Earth as well as these first two weeks discussing, “What is Human” is that human nature revolves around pursuits. Some of these pursuits take the form of life-long endeavors, as well as other day-to-day undertakings. I believe engrained in the core of each of these pursuits of varying size is the idea of enhancement in some form. Enhancement seems like a very technical term in this context, but what I mean is that when one comes across something of…