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    The Real Eve

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    In the film, “The Real Eve”, there was a lot of information to process, but a lot of very fascinating details and facts about the first modern humans and how far they came. To start off, before I watched this video I thought humans first appeared on Earth may 70,000 years ago. However, in the documentary it mentioned that the first modern humans appeared in Africa 150,000 years ago, which really made me think how much longer Neanderthals were on Earth before us, considering that they’re a…

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    Alice travels with Warren Clarke to see footprints that show evidence of early humans arrival dated back to over 20,000 years ago. After that, she looks for signs of any bones left from the ancient giant kangaroos that grew to 2.5 meters and became extinct over 50,000 years ago. Because of bones left from the “Mungo” man dated between 40 and 60,000 years ago she concluded that people could have lived there before entering Europe. She then traveled back to Africa to see how it would have been…

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    Ch.1 Clive Gamble’s “Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History,” begins with a brief discussion of a shared common ancestor amongst Africans believing this process of expansion settled the world. In addition, he provides a summary of hominins, a group we are included in with our extinct ancestors, Australopithecines, and Neanderthals (Gamble 2013: 23). As the text progressed, I began to understand the author’s notion of this first chapter. I believe this evolution of human…

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    A rat Rod, why rat rods? What is a rat rod? Who built the first rat rod? Pro streets or rat rods? What are the styles of rat rods? The first top question “Why rat rods?”. Let me tell you about them in these paragraphs. But first what is a rat rod. Many people have said that they were a piece of junk through together with a budget well they're wrong. A rat rod is a vehicle you can drive for as many miles as you want and not fall apart every 2000 miles. A rat rod is a vehicle that the parts are…

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    was where the existence of human lives began, from the soil of Africa. According to the world historians, scholars, scientist, geographers, archaeologies and the anthropologists, they all unanimously believed that the ancient men and women known as (Homo Sapiens) originated from the land of Africa before any human migration to any parts of the world, thus making it the first home of human ancestor (Hobbs). According to Dr. Spencer wells and the group of his scientist in the 2009 documentary of…

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    David Zeanah lecture, The Multiregional Hypothesis was explained to be the belief that Homo Erectus left Africa to become Homo Sapiens in divergent areas of the world but were able to be traced back to earlier populations of Homo Erectus from the same region. During the same lecture Professor Zeanah states that The Out of Africa Hypothesis is the belief that the transition from ancient straight to modern Homo Sapiens took place in one population, probably in Africa.…

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    anthropology lies the all consuming desire to know where we as humans come from. Who were our ancestors and what made them so different from us? It is debated if Australopithecus africanus or Australopithecus afarensis is the direct ancestor to the genus homo. Through critical evaluation of the features of the skeleton, diet and dentition, and use of bipedality, it is evident that A. africanus is a direct ancestor to modern humans while still possessing features from both modern humans and…

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    The fractional substitution models all keep up that advanced people initially developed in Africa and later moved to different parts of the world, which at last wiped out the hominins that were at that point living in alternate zones. In modules, it expresses "This model accept that the starting point of present day people was a speciation occasion, so there could be no advanced human/premodern human admixture" (Module). The fractional substitution models propose that interbreeding occurred…

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    Creating Humans From Dust What if scientists told the world that evolution may not be true? What if they showed the world an alternative view to human history? For many years the dominant consensus on how humans came to be has been through the evolution theory. Many scientists, and people around the world view the evolution theory to be correct, sometimes without question. However, a new chapter in human history has opened up and it’s called Forbidden Archaeology. Forbidden Archaeology has…

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    I have no name. I am Homo sapiens sapiens, and I 've helped develop our culture. I have lived through many dark times, known to you as nights. I have no formal written language and am able to be equal in cognition and articulation as you, though this does not hold true for me in my time. My life here is during the time you refer to as the "Paleolithic” period. This is the earliest t and longest age of the Stone Age, lasting from c. 1, 5000,000 to c. 8000 B.C. We actively developed and utilize…

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