Miocene

Our physiology has been compared with those of modern day primates, due to our similar characteristics, which have all been linked to our ancestors. Hands of humans and primates are prehensile, “which means they can grasp objects and we share the ability to brachiate from “branch to branch contain a “reduced sense of smell,” and a “wide range of tooth types [suggesting] an adaptation to a generalist diet” (MacDonald, 2003, p. 325). All of characteristics suggest that our ancestors were arboreal,…

These animals date back to the Miocene (25 to 5 million years ago) and Pliocene (5 to 2 million years ago) periods, making scientists believe that bamboo and red panda-like animals have historically been found in many places on the…

For other uses, see Parrot (disambiguation). Scarlet Macaws. One is eating using a foot to hold a walnut, while the shell is broken with its beak.Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 species in 85 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. Also known as psittacines (pronounced /?s?t?sa?nz/),[1][2] they are usually grouped into two families: the Psittacidae (true parrots) and the Cacatuidae (cockatoos). Parrots have a pan-tropical distribution with…

Sedimentology and Formation of Punchbowl Falls The following essay will focus on Punchbowl Falls, one of the thirteen waterfalls located on the Eagle Creek hiking trail in the Columbia River Gorge approximately 24 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon. The hike to Punchbowl Falls is a modest 4.2 miles with a slight elevation gain of 400 ft. While hiking the trail to Punchbowl one can find a variety of interesting rock faces and vast vistas overlooking Mt. Hood national forest. Punchbowl’s unique…

archeologists believe that humans originated from Eastern Africa. Then as humans began to modernize, they began to spread to other parts of the world. The most ancient ancestor of mankind is the Dryopithecus, who lived in Africa, China, and Europe during the Miocene period. Their first species were discovered in 1856, in Haute-Garonne, France. The Dryopithecus lacks many specializations that differentiate humans and apes. This is because their teeth are larger and weaker than the ones of humans.…

Louis Leakey is one of the most influential men in the world. He is a well-known white archeologist from Africa. Louis Leakey did a lot of things for Africa historically. Also Leakey won an award from a museum and organized an important event. He is an interesting person to talk about from his accomplishments to his personal life. Without Louis Leakey’s impact how would have our history turned out? Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7th, 1903. He was raised in Kabete—small tribe in…

Africa” (B. Vijitha Perera, B. (n.d.). EDGE of Existence.), and the lemurs that are found on the island of Madagascar (B. Vijitha Perera, B. (n.d.). EDGE of Existence.). The slender loris can be traced back in the fossil record all the way to the early Miocene which is roughly 20 million years ago. (B. Vijitha Perera, B. (n.d.). EDGE of Existence.) Unfortunately, in the past, there was some confusion when it came to classifying the grey slender loris. Since then it has been clarified that there…

Do we evolve from humans, many people think we do but we don’t we might share an ancestor with them, and i also don’t think we evolve from them. The importance of this study is to figure out how, if, and do we evolve from monkeys. How it could affect society is if apes are our ancestors then that might mean that some random ape in the world could be our ancestor and we don’t even know it, and if we do evolve from humans how are their monkeys still,and they're not humans. Since apes are our…

developed its morphologies changed to collect pollen by its increased fuzziness, pollen baskets, longer tongues and more colonies to store supplies. Forty million years ago Gondwana broke apart and temperatures cooled dramatically during the Oligocene-Miocene period. Because of the cooler temperatures and climate change many of the European honey bees went extinct. However, the Indo-European honey bees lived and began to evolve throughout India. “During a Pleistocene warming about 2-3 million…

Title of the Essay We Australopithecus afarensis had been living in the northeastern Africa ever since our first generation. Though not being known as the most powerful living species here, our ingrained talent in arboreal life helped us gain advantage over many other species in chance of survival. For 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…