Pleistocene

proportions was able to follow their prey into new territories (Dennell, 2003:423; Dennell and Roebroeks, 2005:1100). The Pliocene grasslands which had originally spread from north Africa into south and southwest Asia were still plentiful during the Pleistocene (Dennell, 2003:426). Therefore, ergaster/erectus were dispersing into familiar habitats (Dennell, 2003:431; Dennell and Roebroeks, 2005:1102; Derricourt,…

Humans are constantly changing the world to facilitate our growing need of comfort. The burning of fossil fuels adding acidity to oceans and myriad carbon to the atmospheric layer to result in global warming. Elizabeth Kolbert interprets the idea of destruction through global warming in her article “The Forest and the Trees”. “Global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this” (Kolbert 150). Mostly, global warming results in increased…

exist is Gigantopithecus. The largest ape known to have lived on Earth, growing to 9.8 ft and 1,190 lbs. Gigantopithecus has been extinct for an estimated one-hundred thousand years, after its food supply diminished from climate change during the Pleistocene era. Lastly, all of the unexplained hand and footprints that are spread across North America and a number of other continents. It is completely unlikely the hand and footprints are all hoaxes because of their broad coverage around the…

The modern synthesis for the evolutionary theory began from the coming together of Wallace’s, Mendel’s and Darwin’s thoughts concerning evolution as well as heredity along with the modern study for popular genetics. This describes the evolution of populations and species from the smaller changes among the individuals to large scale changes occurring over paleontological time periods. To be specific, current understanding on speciation arising from the concept of reproductive isolation and the…

Alix Lippincott Mr. Day Biology B4 May 15, 2016 The Evolution of the Gray wolf Every species has an evolution, the gray wolf is no different. They belong to the “Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Carnivora, Family: Canidae, Subfamily: Caninae, Genus: Canis and Species Lupus.” The gray wolf didn't start as a gray wolf it was originally a different animal that adapted overtime to become a gray wolf. The Reason for an animal adaption is mutation, natural selection,…

Landform Assignment: Great Teays River Description and Location: The Great Teays River was a river that flowed north and north west in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. The river was named after the valley found in Putnam County, WV (Teays Valley). Teays Valley was named after Stephen Teays who was an early settler. A few places I was familiar with that the river ran through was Scioto County and Chillicothe in Ohio and along the Interstate 64 in West Virginia from…

the Great Western Divide and it has been posed as the rival of the Sierran Crest. The topography and its gradual formation was the result of the uplift of the southern portion of the Sierra block over an elevation of 8,000 feet during the Plio-Pleistocene time (Konigsmark 2002). In the midst of these towering figures is where many canyons are found and the most spectacular of them all is Kings Canyon. This grand geological feature incorporates a broad glacial valley, awesome tall cliffs, a…

Yosemite National Park, located in the central eastern portion of California, has been founded since 1890. The park is known for its natural habitats and abstract scenery. Tourist enjoy hiking in Tuolumne Meadows, lodging in Yosemite Valley, fishing in the Eastern Sierra and even skiing in the Mammoth Lakes mountain resort. But what any do not know is that all of these attractions were created by one phenomenon, glaciation. On three different occasions during the Great Ice Age era, Yosemite was…

violent storms break the connection to the mainland and thus form an island. The final accepted theory for barrier island formation, the submergence theory, is believed to be how Assateague Island formed. This theory suggests that at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, because of the large glaciers melting and sea level rising, beach ridges along the shoreline were drowned and became separated from the mainland by a…

argument by suggesting humans “escape” their biological constraints every time the race becomes smarter or discovers a new development in the world. For example, he argues how people today do not “still live in our species’ ‘natural state’ as Pleistocene hunter-gatherers” (Bailey, 452). In other words, our race has tremendously advanced since the time of our ancestors thanks to our intellectual and technological progress. Bailey presents the idea that since the beginning, humans have…