Homo sapiens

to the picture painted by Chris Stringer in his book, Lone Survivors: How we Came to Be the Only Humans Alive. Homo. naledi, a recent addition to the Homo genus supports Stringer’s Out of Africa Theory by aligning with the three aspects of the theory: the origin, coexistence and competition of humans in Africa.…

Harari’s Sapiens Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari depicts the history of humans in his own way. By bringing the history and science of human development together he creates valid points that make the mind of the reader rethink their existence. His ideas began with the Cognitive and Agricultural development and how it changed the course of history. In many ways there was much to find in these two eras and from the finding Harari explains his reasoning for believing why they were…

bipedal Australopithecus africanus Just like the Australopitheus afarensis, bipedal Australopithecus boisei Flat head, line across skull, prognathic lower jaw, bipedal Homo erectus Long skull, prognathic lower jaw, bipedal Homo habilis Skull like a homo sapien, bipedal Homo heidelbergensis Related to homo sapien, bipedal, normal jaw Homo neanderthalis Abnormal nose, look like…

website: http://www.ivyroses.com/HumanBiology/Evolution/Humans-vs-Primates.php Human Evolution Many scientists have been gathering information trying to prove that humans have evolved. It is said that before humans, we had ancestors e.g homo erectus and homo habilis. Anthropologists proved their theory by digging up fossils of these ancestors. The differences between the hominids: Australopithecus afarensis This species of hominids was discovered during the 1970s. The fossils found was…

that possess characterics like bipedalism, smaller canine size and bigger brain size are hominins. Humans are the modern Hominins and the fossils reveal that several species of hominins are extinct. Homo is a type of Hominin that lived around 1.9 m.y.a and it is the immediate predecessor of Homo sapiens. Paleontologists and archeologists have classify each time they discover new fossils that have primates and or derived characteristics. The two groups of anthropologists are lumpers and splitters…

A major hallmark in the evolution of the hominid species is the modification in the size of the brain. The available fossil record is however incomplete and interpretation is often difficult. The supposed dominance of homo erectus species of hominids is generally credited to the proportions of their brain, that has evolved over the course of their evolutionary history. Direct evidence supporting the changes in the brain can only be obtained from the hominid fossil record, and by studying the…

(Shpancer). Homo sapiens like many other animals on earth need others to survive. It’s fully hard wired and programmed into them to work with others to help each to survive. When a human important to their loved ones dies, who is going to help take care of the love ones of the dead one. Leaving loved ones behind makes them more likely to not be able to survive no matter how skillful and capable they are (Lama). Witch it’s why humans cry when their loved ones die, as crying is signal for help to…

The history of humankind is an extremely complex process unlike any other. The complicated process has lasted about two million years. Humans are still evolving and creating new things to further improve the modern world. Based on the book, Sapiens, I can conclude that three things conceptualized the modern world, the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. These three events shaped the modern world into what it is today and without any of these three…

Southeast Asian, Europe, and China. The famous “Java Man” and “Peking Man” fossils are Homo Erectus. Because they needed flexible bodies to hunt animals, the proportions of their bodies were much more similar to modern human: their arms were not long as Habilis, and they were no longer be hairy as Primate, etc. Moreover, Erectus also developed the bigger brain capacity that was compared with Homo Habilis. At that time, Homo Erectus were able to hunt bigger animal as a group, discover the way to…

I aim to explore what is needed in order to be human. Can we turn to science for an answer? Some paleoanthropologists identify the category of the human with the species Homo sapiens, others equate it with the whole genus Homo, some restrict it to the subspecies Homo sapiens, and a few take it to encompass the entire hominin lineage. These differences of opinion are not due to a scarcity of evidence. They are due to the complete absence of what sort of evidence can settle the question of which…