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    As the website of The History Channel says, "looking for the origins of mankind is a history of bone and tales they tell. It was in 1856 that the first bones of an ancestor of the missing man ... were encountered Neanderthals. "The television program, however, contradicting website States that Neanderthals not only have a brain larger than most human beings and had a greater sense of smell, they were around during the time of modern man, and therefore were not our ancestors. They are not a "real…

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    In the article, “This Face Changes the Human Story. But How?” Jamie Shreeve writes about a new primitive species of humans discovered in a cave in South Africa and the impact of this discovery on the evolutionary lines of human beings. The article was published by Natural Geographic, an esteemed magazine that publishes scientific research, on the tenth of September 2015 and thus the audience would be a population of people interested and up-to date on the latest scientific research. Shreeve…

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    The discovery and observations of fossils have led us to a lot 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…

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    Mammal Like Reptiles Essay

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    The first mammals evolved from mammal-like reptiles at the end of the triassic period. Therapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, is an order of reptiles that lived in the Permian and Triassic Periods before going extinct in the mid Jurassic Period. It is difficult for scientist to determine when the divide between therapsids and mammals occurred. Early mammals had small, mouselike forms. Very few were large, because dinosaurs were the unquestioned dominant land animals on earth. The ecological niche…

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    There are many definitions of the word story, but one definition in particular fits the topic of human origins perfectly; a narration of the events in the life of a person or the existence of a thing, or such events as a subject for narration. The story of human origin and the creation of human nature is a difficult story to tell, created by miniscule pieces of evidence and guesswork through paleoanthropology, and advances in the ability to look at and study DNA. Exactly where we came from and…

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    Evolution is the change in a period over time. Scientist use evidence of evolution to prove that there was a change in organisms over time. If the evidence is present, scientist would come up with theories that are reasonable enough to have support from the pre- historic time frame. The lab is to show the people how living things came to be in the present day. Including how fossils as evidence explain why there maybe certain functions were used in the early stage of an organism. Hypothesis: If…

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    Lab report 3 At first glance it may appears unbelievable, because human bipedalism is such a key evolutionary innovation. Few characteristics of being human have engrossed such intense debate than the fact that, distinct from many other living mammals, humans walk upright on two legs. Unlike the quadrupedal primates, bipedal primates are sluggish, clumsy, and particularly unbalanced and disposed to to falls and injury. In spite of the negatives characteristics, bipedalism has allowed humans to…

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    Macroevolution is a large-scale evolutionary change over a long time period, or major evolutionary changes over a short period (Stanford et al, 2013). An example of this can be demonstrated by the difference in the hands of the modern human and Australopithecus afarensis. A. afarensis is known to have lived between 2.9 and 3.9 million years age. The paleoanthropological evidence of these hominids hands resembled that of an arboreal species. The fossils show curved proximal phalanges suggesting…

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    Savannah Hypothesis Essay

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    the Savannah Hypothesis, which states that early hominids lived in small forests surrounding savannahs because it is the most reasonable hypothesis. Scientists use fossils to determine where early hominids lived, as proven in this quote. “ Australopithecus anamensis has been found at Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya, in association with another type of mosaic – an open savanna with low trees and shrubs, but with both grasslands and gallery forests nearby.” (1) This piece of evidence can be used…

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    Digestibility Of Food

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    Throughout the history of humanity, a top priority of its populace has been to obtain enough food to stay alive. According to historians and scientists, this urge for consumption has since led to major changes in the human race. One such reshaping occurred from 2.5 to 1.9 million years ago with the invention of cooked food. The second was the domestication of the three main cereal grains, wheat, rice, and maize, which happened approximately 10,500 to 5,500 years ago. Each of these…

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