Yuval Harari is a historian professor who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, that was established by Jared Diamond. Under the support of Jared Diamond, who also aided him in endorsing his book, Harari connected logical research to each part of mankind 's history and also towards parts of history for which no composed records exist. In truth, Harari utilizes less science than Diamond. He underscores the trouble of knowing in detail the lives of our remote ancestors and is frequently…
This figure is called homo sacer, and in Agamben 's theory, it is a person whom one could kill with impunity (without consequences) (Agamben, 8). He compares this person to the living dead because although they are physically alive, they could be killed at anytime (theoretically)…
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 Ancient Inhabitants of Flores Island The recently discovered Homo floresiensis have been a puzzle for scientists. The skeletons are an odd mix of archaic and more modern traits. The problem of how these diminutive hominins arrived on the island of Flores is still a mystery. The dating shows H. floresiensis arrived over a million years ago by the tools they left behind. The hominins had a minimal cranial capacity, yet they were able to live and prosper until recent times. The Indonesian…
Homo ergaster, meaning ‘workman’, lived in eastern and southern Africa around 1.5 million years ago. The ergaster had a good run for about 500,000 years, until vanishing from fossil records 1.3 million years ago. Homo ergaster was discovered in 1949 somewhere in southern Africa by prominent South African hominin paleontologist, John T. Robinson. Researchers have argued back and forth on the the idea that Home ergaster is a valid taxon due to the similarities between ergaster and erectus. Some…
Creationism is the belief that the universe along with everything in it was created by acts of divine creation. A good example would be how the Christians believe that God is the creator of all things. Evolution is the process of different species developing and diversifying over a period of time to adapt to their environment. A good example would be us. According to scientists we have ancestors that trace back to six million-years-ago to a group called the Ardipithecus group which is our…
Tools Neanderthals used stone tools similar to and no more sophisticated than the ones used by early humans, including blades and scrapers made from stone flakes. As time went on, they created tools of greater complexity, utilizing materials like bones and antlers. Neanderthals used a type of glue, and later pitch, to attach stone tips to wooden shafts, creating formidable hunting spears. Social structure Neanderthals lived in nuclear families. Discoveries of elderly or deformed Neanderthal…
A new species of human ancestor has been discovered in the Red Star Cave in South Africa, providing an extraordinary insight to how humans have evolved over time and filling a gap in the evolution of our species A significant discovery of human-like remains has been discovered, 30m beneath the surface in South Africa. Analysing the bones in the Red Star cave, 10 miles north of Johannesburg required six scientists to travel deep underground in order to excavate them, allowing a further team of…
The Homo erectus was believed to have lived about 1.89 million years ago in North, South, and East Africa; western and east Asia. They possessed a human like body with the ability to stand upright with its elongated legs, shorter arms compared to the torso and a slightly larger braincase relative to the size of the face. With these discoveries in the fossilized anatomy it seems that these features are adaptations for a life lived on the ground. They had the ability to walk and possibly run long…
then migrated to Eurasia. They lived across Eurasia, as far north and west as Britain, through part of the middle east, to Uzbekistan. Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relatives. There is some debate of whether Neanderthals are considered Homo Neanderthalensis or a subspecies…