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    Australopithecus Afarensis Species and Their Existence Humans are a species of hominidae. A hominid is any one of a family, hominidae, of mammals that includes humans with their extinct ancestral forms. Hominids evolved from each other. Humans have evolved over the millions of years from the first hominid. One of the hominid species that humans have evolved from is the Australopithecus Afarensis. A classification of an Australopithecus Afarensis is a Southern Ape. This species is a…

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    Homosapiens Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa in search of more space and new habitats to use.On search, some how they met up with the Neanderthals occupying the Middle East and Southern Europe. There’s one hypothesis that suggests that Neanderthals were no match for Homo sapiens. Neanderthals were pushed out of their habitats, and extinct by Homosapiens. Another discovered evidence suggests that, Homo sapiens didn’t leave Africa in large groups, but in smaller…

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    Tools Neanderthals used stone tools similar to and no more sophisticated than the ones used by early humans, including blades and scrapers made from stone flakes. As time went on, they created tools of greater complexity, utilizing materials like bones and antlers. Neanderthals used a type of glue, and later pitch, to attach stone tips to wooden shafts, creating formidable hunting spears. Social structure Neanderthals lived in nuclear families. Discoveries of elderly or deformed Neanderthal…

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    then migrated to Eurasia. They lived across Eurasia, as far north and west as Britain, through part of the middle east, to Uzbekistan. Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relatives. There is some debate of whether Neanderthals are considered Homo Neanderthalensis or a subspecies…

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    The origin of all human beings can be traced back to Africa, with some of the earliest fossil remains having been found there. In fact, according to Rick Potts (2010), the fossils of early humans who lived between 2 and 6 million years ago all came entirely from Africa. Together, these bands of humans created some of the earliest forms of civilization in Africa. Groups of intelligent creatures that were able to accomplish relatively astonishing feats, such as the ability to communicate, interact…

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    Lebombo Bone

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    The Lebombo Bone is a Baboon Fibula, it is an ancient mathematical artifact. It was used as a Tally Stick and is nearly 35,000 years old. With the Ishango Bone is dating back to 20,000 B.C. it is yet another amazing mathematical artifact. Found in the 1970’s during the excavations of a Border Cave, the bone was found with nearly 29 clear defined notches and with it being found it was stated that it was the oldest mathematical artifact dating it was approximately dated back to 35,000 B.C. Judging…

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    Infraclass Metatheria

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    Introduction – *Infraclass Metatheria includes pouched mammals andwas first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880) comprising 272 primitive mammals. *Metatherians are an…

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    Homo Naledi Research Paper

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    Homo sapiens, or our modern people, are the only living species in homo genus these days. However, as we all known, before a long time like 100,000 years ago, the primitive society indeed existed some species which belong to our genus Homo. All of them have disappeared and extinct for a long time, those are Hominins that we called. In 2015, Berger et al reported a discovery named the Homo naledi, they found at least 15 individuals and multiple examples to do their research (Berger et al, 2015;…

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    at the skull and teeth they realized it was the skull of an adult. Many scientists think this is a new species that they named homo floresiensis, but others argue that it is just a modern human with a mutation. Since 2003, bones and teeth from as many as 12 other homo floresiensis have been discovered. I believe that by examining the bone structure, we can see that the homo floresiensis are a new species. When conducting my research, I found many sources to use. Two articles I used,…

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    Homo Floresiensis We are the homo species that were found about 95,000 to 12,000 years ago on the island of Flores, Indonesia. We are 3 to 6 inches tall being bipedal, having small brains, shrugged-forward shoulders, no chins, diminished forehead and large feet because of short legs. We are also nicknamed as the “Hobbit” after the tiny creatures in the book Lord of Rings. We have been the most spectacular discovery so far being the most extreme human ever discovered. We don’t look like modern…

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