Hominidae

Consolation, a form of compassion, is an empathetic trait common across humans from all walks of life. From hunter-gatherers living in egalitarian societies to the hierarchical societies common of today, humans have maintained this means of expressing empathy for others since the very emergence of our species. It can be hard to believe that a trait so instinctual and basic is common only to the human species and has its roots only in the most recent lineage split from apes (Warneken et al.,…

Lemurs life time Lemurs live in the island areas like, “madagascar and comoros”. They live in this area because of the temperature it is hot and dry there and it has a lot of trees there.”Most lemurs inhabit trees most of the time”. Ringed tailed lemurs love trees because well they are monkeys.They have” black and white rings or stripes on their tail and has gray soft smooth fur, and has a white circle on their stomach.” “They have a black snout and two black circles around there eyes and the…

Region As stated above Denisovans were first found in a remote cave in the harsh Siberian climate, in the Altai Mountains located in Russia between China and Mongolia.(German, PRI). When looking at regions Denisovans occupied and explored, it appears that Denisovans originally migrated out of Africa, around the same time as Neanderthals began to break away from the continent as well (Katsnelson, New). Although Denisovans took a more easterly/southern route compared to Neanderthals when leaving…

Owning a pet is seen normal thing. There are more ordinary pets, such as cats and dogs or more uncommon pets like ferrets, birds and snakes. There’s hardly a person who views having a pet as something crazy or immoral. The most common view is of animals just being lesser, sentient but not sapient creatures that are subject to whatever whims human beings choose to impose on them. A slightly less common view is that animals deserve the same rights and protections that human beings do. Within this…

The Disembodied Universe The Accidental Universe, by Alan Lightman, is considered one of the most controversial and fascinating novels. Lightman ponders unanswered questions about the universe, as well as the emotional questions such as molecular biology and other scientific discoveries. For example, in the chapter titled “The Disembodied Universe”, Alan Lightman mentions that there have been particular molecules discovered that encode the instructions for making new human beings. After reading…

The theory of evolution is that organisms have evolved over time, and have changed to better match their enviroment. One example of evolution is the skeleton of a ape, because over time the ape bones got more upright so instead of walking in all fours they could just walk in two feet. This supports evolution because it shows that ape species evolved over time to be more efficient, and to abel to better adapt to the enviroment by just standing on four legs. It also shows that ape have gotten more…

Primate parenting have a lot of features which can be considered different from other mammal. One of the biggest difference could be the parental investment which is the amount of time the average parent spends with it's off spring after birth and further gives it the skills of survival or maybe just social skills to survive in the group. Primates especially females spend a lot of time caring for their off springs by teaching them skills like termite fishing and further grooming them. Female…

Current Events Assignment #7 Celimar Burgos Title: Foot fossils of human relative illustrate evolutionary 'messiness' of bipedal walking. This article explains the new study on the extinct human relative, Homo naledi that was discovered in a cave in South Africa in 2013 and recently describes last month. The discovery has to do with his feet, that although considered to be the most human-like feature of his body, besides being useful for standing and walking on them they were also good for…

The earliest members of Ursidae belong to the extinct subfamily Amphicynodontinae, including Parictis (late Eocene to early middle Miocene, 38–18 Mya) and the slightly younger Allocyon (early Oligocene, 34–30 Mya), both from North America. These animals looked very different from today's bears, being small and raccoon-like in overall appearance, and diets perhaps more similar to that of a badger. Parictis does not appear in Eurasia and Africa until the Miocene.[8] It is unclear whether…

The two primates I chose to observe were chimpanzees and orangutans. I had no particular reason for choosing these particular primates except for the fact that they were easier for me to access. I first observed the chimpanzees on April 23rd. I was able to do both a group and focus observation on the chimpanzees. I chose to fill out the quantitative observation form on a focused observation because I wanted to focus on a single chimpanzee performing certain behaviors over a group. I found a lone…