Hominidae

The history of life goes back over a million of years ago. The earliest evidence of humans in Europe, date about 1.8 million years ago (Smiley 2016, unit 11). Many years later, a partial skeleton was found and it was pretty evident that it belonged to an extinct human our closest evolutionary relative (Paabo, 2006). Many species have evolved and changed to what we call modern man. The Neanderthals and the Denisovans are very similar to modern man and are frequently referred to as “early modern…

Weird at Last Earth is home to many weird and strange creatures, some that seem too weird to be real. With so many oddities that we know to be real, why can we say that a few more exist? One such strange creature is the Okapi. Before it became officially recognized as an actual creature, the only evidence of its existence were tales told by early explorers. It was Sir Harry Johnston that found real evidence: In 1900, during an expedition to the eastern edge of the Congo forests, he was able to…

The Zebra strips are all unique. No two zebras have the same strips pattern. There stripe are black and white and the strip can brown. There can be thin strips and thick strips. There also darker strips. They all different general patters of strips. The mountain Zebra can 529 to 820 lbs. A mountain zebra are 3.8 to 4.9 feet tall at the shoulder. A plain zebra are 3.6 to 4.8 feet all at the shoulder and they weigh up to 770 lbs. a largest zebra is the Grevy Zebra weights 770 to 990 lbs. It is…

Crested Mona Monkeys are a social and activity species. Their playful personalities and physical features play a role in how they got their common names. The crowned monkey, golden bellied guenon, and Cercopithecus Mona are just a few of their common nicknames, but this creature have the ability to adapt to different environmental pressures that caused a wide spread of subspecies that ranges from the Cross River, south of the Congo Basin, raising to Rwanda, and Uganda. Also this species was also…

Language is the most effective method of human communication. It is rich and complex. And it carries meaning. It enables one to express knowledge and thoughts. Animals also can communicate but in a very distinctive and different way. Some animals like birds, dogs and dolphins have their own inborn method of communicating. Their communication is different from human communication or language. As they react to triggers, stimuli or commands. Human language is unique and very different from animal…

1. The physical states observed in the species were primarily ancestral characteristics ranging from the more distinct species, gorilla gorilla, to modern human, homo sapiens, they all had molars, flat face with forward facing eyes. Ancestral/primitive characters are the characters that were present in a common ancestor whereas the derived characters are those type of characters that were not present in the common ancestor. One of the observed characteristics for derived characters are large…

For centuries, it was believed that the darker your skin the less intelligent you are. People with darker skin were compared to monkeys because it was believed that they evolved from apes. They were separated and treated completely different from white people, one could say they were treated like animals. It took years for mankind to learn that the color of your skin does not make you different from the next person. In fact, we learned that every human being is almost the same. The video…

Proposal for Chimpanzees Imagine if you had just lost your husband for the second time. He was killed for his meat and your children taken away by a pet company. In 10-15 years you will find another husband. This is the sad life of a Chimpanzee. For starters, our endangered relatives are being killed away. Next, we can do something and Chimps need to be preserved. Finally, there will also be many benefits is Chimpanzees can be preserved. Chimpanzees are our closest relative and we need…

Hello my name is Orlando, I will be talking about chimpanzee’s. The reason I chose to do research about chimpanzee’s is because I wanted to know more of what it was. As I was doing research I found some of the best fact’s about Chimpanzee’s. Out of all the facts I got from research I thought I would put them on my Presentation. I didn’t just get any facts I tried to get the coolest facts from what I got from researching. After looking up what a chimpanzee was and finding the coolest facts about…

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…