Homo habilis

Arturo Perez-Reverte' The Club Dumas was written in 1996 in Spanish then translated into English in 1998. A suspense thriller completely on its own. The story follows Lucas Corso, a self-described book mercenary investigating two rare books: an Alexandre Dumas manuscript of The Three Musketeers and an ancient satanic text called The Nine Doors. Corso, slowly puts the pieces together in the two books as he becomes part of a never-ending game leading to a secret society. Corso…

During the many years of carefully analyzing the theories of crime, questionings have challenged whether or not sociology can illustrate and help understand the causation of crimes. The theories of crime and delinquency are used to explain the principle of the crime committed and provides a supportive argument into the motive and compensation of the individual’s actions. Sociological theories of crime focus’ on a macro level around three of its leading theories: strain theory, social learning…

certain similarities with tooth traits, the pelvis bone, and a broad lower chest resemble those of modern-man. Au. Sediba is a very good candidate for the ancestor to the Homo genus because of many of the similarities found in its skeletal structure. Smaller premolars, molars, as well as facial features were more similar to the Homo genus. The functional changes in the pelvis also strongly support the evolution of upright…

The gopher tortoise is a large dark-brown to grayish-black terrestrial turtle with elephantine hind feet, shovel-like forefeet. The adult shell ranges in size of 5.9 to 14.6 inches long. It has a gular projection beneath the head on its yellowish, hinge less plastron or undershell. In comparison to females, males are generally smaller; with a larger gland under the chin, a longer gular projection, and more concave plastron. The gopher tortoise is seen as an important species in the…

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…

Another Missing Link Found in South Africa: Homo Naledi The most significant early human discovery was unearthed in a small cavern in South Africa known as the “Star Chamber” or “Dinaledi” inside the “Rising Star Cave System.” The cave system is located 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg. It contained 1,550 partial human remains representing more than 15 individuals of the new ancestor know as Homo Naledi. Naledi means star. "Naledi is a fantastic new species, part of our family tree.…

The notion that all humans are descended from a select group of hunter-gatherers based in early east Africa is called Genealogy. While humans have been around for millions of years, the behaviorally modern human emerged between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago. What changed was our ability to have abstract thought. This is what separated us from animals that followed strictly their set behaviors. The earliest evidence of these abstractly thinking humans goes to Blombos Cave. There are rocks…

This book is about Hobbits. Or at least one Hobbit. A Hobbit is kind of like a human and kind of like a dwarf, but is smaller than a dwarf and human. They are quick on their feet and silent. They do not have any kind of magic in them, though some would say that being able to quietly and quickly dissapear from sight is a magic thing. The Hobbits name that this story is about is Bilbo Baggins. Gandalf, who is a wizard, comes one day to the Shire, where Bilbo lives. Since Hobbits are usually always…

• Procoptodon Goliah (picture 1) – The Procoptodon Goliah was a part of the Sthenurines (short faced Kangaroo) This animal had a very short, deep ‘brachycephalic’ skull and a low jaw. The large Kangaroo stood at around 2 metres tall with a mass of around 200 kg. Tim Flannery an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist, and environmentalist proposed that its closest extant relative is the tiny banded hare wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) this small animal only weighs 2kg in weight and is about 15…

In 1972 Maurice Taieb, 40, of France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Donald Carl Johanson, 34, of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, discovered stone instruments going back 2.6 million years in the Afar area of Ethiopia. After two years their group made a considerably more sensational disclosure. On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson and his understudy Tom Gray were reviewing a site named Hadar in the Afar area of Ethiopia, East -Africa…