Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens is the name of the species that rules today 's Earth. It means in Latin man (Homo) that is wise (Sapiens), but who are these "wise men" that have made their way to the top of the food chain you may ask? Well, they are we, like you and me, humans that have out competed our fellow homos into extinction. How do we know this though? Well, around 3.3 million years ago people started to become curious about how we Homo Sapiens came to be and human evolution in a whole. One may think that…

Homo sapiens are aerobic living organisms. Homo sapiens need oxygen to survive and reproduce. You are a homo sapiens. You need oxygen to survive. The only way in which there will be oxygen surrounding the face of the Earth, is by plants and other organisms converting carbon dioxide into oxygen during photosynthesis. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest left on the planet. This rainforest is responsible for producing 20+ percent of the oxygen on Earth (Taylor, 1). That is over 1/5 the…

Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Early Modern Human / Cro-Magnon Man Entry #1: Squat down on the ground, the sun beating down on me, I wipe a droplet of sweat out of my eye. The bare ground comforted me. My eyelids start to twitch, mouth watering with drool. Just closing my eyes for a minute and… “RAA!” a cry goes out in the distance. I jolt awake, heart beating fast, and squint to see the farthest I can in every direction my head can turn. But all my eyesight could hold was yellow from too much light.…

Sapiens is written by Yuval Noah Harari, who puts forward so many concerns about homo sapiens future after we have broken the laws of “natural selection.” The goal of this paper is to do the close reading of the content’s last part and give some opinions on author’s arguments. In the last part “The End of Homo Sapiens”, Harari points out that we have broken the laws of natural selection and entered the new realm of intelligent design, worrying about what the future will be like for homo…

Forth To The Mighty Conflict. By Allen Cronenberg. (Tuscaloosa and London, A.L.: The University of Alabama Press, 1995.) “The Great Arsenal of the South” most Alabamians called home during the Second World War. Between munitions, aviation, shipbuilding, and shear will and manpower Alabama made huge contributions during World War II. Alabama was strong figuratively, but also economically during this time as it was one of the first states to recover from the Great Depression. Why did Mr.…

The Recent and Current Evolution of Homo Sapiens Humans are still evolving today, even though many environmental pressures have been removed from society. And numerous scientists would even agree that the evolution process has hastened. This includes changes to the brain, skeletal system and immune system. Numerous changes in civilization have produced these adaptations ("Are Humans Still Evolving?"). The loss of our wisdom teeth stands as proof of our present evolution. Today, food can be…

discussing how sex and biological reproduction impacted the division of labor and the origins of gender roles in early male and female hominids and Homo sapiens. I will also address how the advancements in the technology of biological reproductive control, has affected and shaped modern day gender roles. The major drive for early hominids and Homo sapiens was the acquisition of food and reproductive success which was essential in their survival. Biologist suggest that with the development of…

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…

This device is perhaps one of the most primitive forms of the guillotine seen in the revolution. The maiden, along with the Halifax gibbet, a similar invention, gradually gained popularity, being used in places such as Italy and Switzerland during the 15th century. However, it was not until the 1700's that these machines were altered and improved to become the modern guillotine. Named for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, he believed that…

Corona Extra Strategy Peter G. Robinson Argosy University CORONA EXTRA STRATEGY The first time I drank a Corona, I thought it was one of the worst beers that I tasted. My friend told me to put a lime in it, and it still tasted terrible. That was fifteen years ago, today, Corona is one of the top selling imported beers in the country. In this paper, I will discuss the strategy of Corona Extra and will look at the demographics and talk about the cultural differences and how the…