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    There 's many reasons our ancestors had begun walking around on their two legs instead of running on all fours. Evidence was collected during two trips to Guinea in West Africa, because of the trips, there has been one of several leading explanations for why humans became bipedal (an animal using only two legs to walk) millions of years ago. Researchers from Portugal, United States, Japan and England spent multiple weeks watching chimpanzees in their natural habitats to see how they moved about,…

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    self-deception is the action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true. Us, being selfish humans, doing everything to satisfy our own ego, is the only person who we shouldn’t lie on. And certainly lying on ourselves is counter-productive. But while looking around, I can’t see but humans self-deceiving their selves including me. Admitting that we are liars hurts us. This form of dishonesty is the hardest to be detected and admitted.…

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    Essay On Sahelanthropus

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    all have today. Now let’s take it from the beginning the earliest forms of human beings used to climb tress and would walk on the ground, this use of flexibility allowed early humans to get around in such diverse habitats and also to be able to cope with the many changing climates (Smithsonian Museum). But something happened about 6 million years ago it is shown in the oldest evidence that the first of the earliest humans to become bipedal was known was, Sahelanthropus. It is said that being…

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    Foramen Magnum Essay

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    magnum, the length of the leg, the shape of the spine and pelvis are four of the seven steps of bipedality. The position of the foramen magnum is located in the bottom of the skull, near the teeth in humans, and in the rear area for apes. This distinguish humans and apes because it demonstrates that the human head sits on the body rather than on the front of the body, like apes. The shape of the spine is s-shaped for humans and c-shaped for apes. Specifically, in humans the s-shape is caused by…

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    The Secret Science Alliance: and the copycat crook The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook is a beautiful graphic novel created, written, and drawn by Eleanor Davis (inked by Drew Weing, colored by Joey Weiser and Michele Chidester, and lettered by Bryant Paul Johnson). This beautifully crafted novel tells the story of three “unlikely friends” coming together and forming strong friendships through their shared passion for science and inventing! The main character, Julian Calendar, is…

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    everyone was fake, I can now see people's insecurities and strengths. I know others with just one glance and how to rip them apart with just my mere words. It's a good thing though, that I am caring and wish to not harm others, because it's not right. Humans are emotionally fragile and weak and in no way is it my…

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    Moreover, primates with an index closer to a total of 100 appear to assume quadrupedalism. This query can be seen when closely evaluating the results of the Gibbon, the Baboon, and the Human. For instance, the Gibbon has an IM ratio of 127 with a large variation of 72mm between the longest limb of the Radius and the shortest leg bone, being the Tibia. In this way, because…

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    may appears unbelievable, because human bipedalism is such a key evolutionary innovation. Few characteristics of being human have engrossed such intense debate than the fact that, distinct from many other living mammals, humans walk upright on two legs. Unlike the quadrupedal primates, bipedal primates are sluggish, clumsy, and particularly unbalanced and disposed to to falls and injury. In spite of the negatives characteristics, bipedalism has allowed humans to multiply to a world population…

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    Mammal Like Reptiles Essay

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    were the unquestioned dominant land animals on earth. The ecological niche they inhabited included eating plants, insects, and small lizards. They lived in trees and hunted at night to avoid dinosaurs, who hunted in the daytime. They walked on four legs like mice. These mammals had the characteristics of all mammals, such as being warm blooded and females producing milk for their young. The first mammals evolved from mammal-like reptiles at the end of the triassic period. Therapsids, or…

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    The anatomy between a human foot, horse’s foot or a bear’s foot are completely different. Despite the difference, there are four limbed-vertebrates which have the same basic pattern of bones. Vertebrates are animals of a large group characterized by the possession of a backbone or spinal column. Vertebrates with four limbs are called tetrapods. Generally, all limbs do the same work to achieve one purpose: support the body and move it from place to place. Some animals have limbs that enhance…

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