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    Evolution is the change in a population over a usually long period of time. Population suggesting a group of the same species in the same location and habitat. Evolutionary changes occur on a genetic level. It is a process and in that process that results in changes that are passed on from generation to generation. Therefore it does not mean the changes of a single person over a short period of time, instead it refers to a species changing over time. Genetic changes happen when genes mutate…

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    entirely different ethnic backgrounds can be more genetically similar than two people of the same ethnicity. Genetics show much more than where people come from. DNA shows haplogroups from thousands of years ago and can even show if somebody has a neanderthal ancestor. These insights are provided to help you better understand what your DNA contains and how it can affect your life. Conclusively, it is important to understand what ancestral DNA can be used for and learning about what it means to…

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    Monophasic Sleep Research

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    session that is considered to be known as the monophasic approach. Stuart Jeffries, for example, states that the population has evolved and as result polyphasic sleep was replaced by monophasic one all around 70,000-40,000 BC period at the age of Neanderthal ancestors (2011, p.22). This statement has been under investigation by several scientists. Correspondingly a scientific research of Crosby, Harsh and LeBourgeois proved that…

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    an African elephant by a single nucleotide, the second had three more mutations, and one of those three had a less active pigmentation gene. This resulted in some mammoths’ hair being blond. This same mutation was also believed to be found in Neanderthals. Thanks to this discovery, we now know the origin of some mammoths’ blond hair. It has been proven that all large cold-climate mammals have a system (rete mirabile) of arteries and veins that helps heats up the blood leaving the core and the…

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    April 24, 2014 titled, “The life expectancy myth, and why many ancient humans lived long healthy lives,” stated that, “The Drawing upon archaeological records, we can indeed see evidence of this.” revealing the study of "Old Man of La Chapelle", a Neanderthal who lived 56,000 years ago, found buried in the limestone bedrock of a small cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in France in 1908. Scientists estimate that he reached an older age by the time he died, as bone had re-grown along the gums…

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    Australia who went to a shopping mall and sat in food court to breastfeed their child.“If I were still breastfeeding I’d be marching down there to do it right now! I think there needs to be a mass breastfeeding session in that food court to educate the neanderthals out there that no one has the right to tell a mum where to feed her child,” said one of the women at the protest.This is an act of respect they are trying to gain in order to feel just as equal as men running out shirtless. In my…

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    When lined up in a row, the skulls of a chimpanzee, neanderthal, and homo sapien contain the same basic structure with variations in the cranium, maxilla, and mandible. John Scopes, a Tennessee substitute teacher, was placed on trial in 1925 for violating the Butler Act. He taught that theory of evolution, that man is descended from the primate family. This was illegal in Tennessee because the Butler Act state anything that denied the story of Creationism forbidden to be taught in public…

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    When we talk about natural selection, we often hear the phrase: “The Survival Of The Fittest”, but what does it really mean? Is it about the strongest ones with biggest muscles who survive? No, it is about the creatures who adjust to their environment. The strongest creatures are the ones who change their body when their home changes. The giraffes eat leaves that are high up in the trees, because they had to adjust to this environment long time ago, generation after generation their shapes…

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    People with mutations in this gene are unable to make certain elusive, quick facial movements needed for normal human speech even though they are perfectly capable of actually speaking clearly. This gene was also found in Neanderthal fossils which leads scientist to believe that the evolved form of the FOXP2 gene existed at least half a million years ago. The majority of what separates human communication from other species’ communication is mental ability which corresponds…

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    Chimps Human Evolution

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    Jaws and enamel have developed from chimps to guys. food eaten and how we method foods via throughout the centuries have effected evolution. The human masticatory machine involves in feeding and speech and has developed within the history of human beings to which they talk about the hominin evolution. There’s believed to be more than one evolutionary lineage with humans. Human evolution is sort of a jumbled mess of ups and downs. In this article, they're trying to overview the evolution of the…

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