Humans

since the wheel had become part of the stone ages; technology has progressed at a rapid pace for the humans to use and make their lives more leisurely than before. In modern days this relaxation period has turned into an anti-social environment where nobody talks to each other face-to-face but text or instant message each other and never go into a genuine human interaction with one another. Human interactions have been decreasing ever since the smart phone became available to the public. Now,…

Although human behavior can most often be ambiguous, I have always felt that I had a decent understanding of it and the circumstances as to how environment can alter human behavior. Since attending graduate school and learning about different theories related to human behavior, my views on it have changed somewhat. The complexity of human behavior can often make it seem very overwhelming to understand or analyze, however, the readings I have done in the past few months have shed some light and…

The earth contains a massive amount of biodiversity, like other animals on this planet, humans are just a member of the animal species. We tend to think or see ourselves as more superior to other living organisms because we have special features that allow us to function somewhat different from the rest of the animals. But still we are not different from the other animals, especially our closest living primate relatives, the bonobos and chimpanzees. To understand ourselves and what our place in…

There are two very important processes we need in order to stay alive. They are photosynthesis and human digestion. Even though, both of these processes are vital to our existence, there has been so many changes to them over the past few hundred years caused by human activity and scientific advancement. Right now, you may (or may not) be trying to recall what exactly photosynthesis and human digestion are. But anyway, let’s just pretend that you are back in elementary school and you are learning…

According to Richard Dawkins, humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor that appeared about 6 million of years ago. The fact of having a common ancestor with chimpanzees does not mean that humans are descended from these animals. Researchers have affirmed that between all the animals that constitute the apes, humans are more closely related to chimpanzee because of anatomy and genetic comparisons. The human species evolved gradually, and chimpanzees and/or apes did not. Humans and apes are…

more bizarre as the days go by and with that being said, the eerie dream of human cloning is suddenly becoming a reality. The research and testing of human cloning began much earlier than one may presume. In fact, the first species that was ever recorded to be cloned was a tadpole in 1952. Shortly…

stripped of their basic human rights. Despite the efforts made to abolish slavery, people still fall victim to this horrid act. Unfortunately, people seldom realize that slavery still occurs in the twenty-first century. Many people have heard the term human trafficking, but many have trouble explaining what it is. So, what do we know about human trafficking? Well, we know that people are simply being held against their own will and being exploited. However, the causes of human trafficking are…

of conclusions of where modern humans come from (Larsen 2008). Fossils are very significant because they are pieces from the past that provide us with evidence of organisms that were once alive (Larsen 2008). The three hominins that I’ll be comparing are Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the Australopitheicus afarensis, and the Homo neanderthaleasis. This gives us a wide range to compare from really early on to a more recent hominins that eventually leads to modern humans. Comparing the brain size of…

Humans Evolved From Apes Where humans came from is a question that has been asked since the beginning of time. Some people believe we were created by a god. Others believe we were created by multiple gods. However, anatomical and behavioral similarities with modern apes, along with fossil evidence of our evolutionary history, gives proof that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor and are in fact, still apes. To understand the evidence behind this, some background information on evolution…

believe that the human population is on it’s way to reaching carrying capacity and we as a nation will continue to grow exponentially and we will exhaust our resources inevitably. There is no one who knows exactly when the human population will exceed all resources but scientists are able to predict what the limit is and what would happen. As of 2011 scientists estimated that the maximum carrying capacity for the world would be around 9-10 billion people. The problem with so many humans…