Homo sapiens idaltu

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.…

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…

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…

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…

How did our ancestors survived through the challenges during Prehistory? What did hominids used environment to survive teaches us about? During Prehistory time, the way Homo erectus and Homo sapiens survived is similar and different but teaches us about how both used the environment to survive. Survival were necessary to our ancestors because survival is to remain alive. Survival has changed the level of the weapons that Hominids used. It also changed clothes that Hominids wear. Survival…

centuries we firmly believed in the idea of all creatures were quadrupedal and we had never seen any exception. It was by accident that we discovered a group of species that featured bipedalism named Homo sapiens. This discovery refuted our long-held belief and successfully aroused us interests. The Homo sapiens were in fact similar to us in many aspects of body traits. Therefore, the key to the mystery would most likely lie in those distinctions…

In the past hundreds years, the British colonized over 100 countries including South Africa. Did this leave any positive impact on the colonized country? The colonization of South Africa began long time ago in the sixteenth century. With around one hundred and seventy years of colonization, the British changed South Africa so much that it brought a bad impact to the South African people ("British Takes Control of the Cape”). These negative impacts could cost the South African people’s social…

The earliest convincing evidence of fire use for cooking appears at the 780,000-400,000 year old late Homo erectus site at Zhoukoudian near Beijing, China and the 400,000 year old Homo heidelbergensis or early archaic human site of Terra Amata near Nice on the French Mediterranean coast. In both cases the evidence is primarily in the form of food refuse bones that were apparently charred during…

is the supposed birthplace of the human race. It is here that the Australopithecines, a group of hominins including Australopithecus and Paranthropus, lived from 4.2 to 1.2 million years ago. In the same area but from 1.9 to 0.027 million years ago, Homo ergaster also roamed around. Even though they shared the same geographic location, they each represent very different phases of the evolution to what we are today. It would therefore be interesting to see how they differed, based on the…

physical type compared to Neanderthals. The tooth, however has not provided researchers with any new discoveries on its morphological characteristics, other than having similarities to Homo erectus teeth (Reich, Genetic). However the last finding of the toe bone has revealed through extensive testing that Homo sapiens sapiens did in fact interbreed with Denisovans and have hybrid offspring (Zimmer, toe). Finally recent discoveries of skulls found in Dali and Maba may have Denisovan ancestry or…