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Word Of God Teaching Evolution
775 wordsTeaching evolution in schools is a highly debated issue between science and religion. In Kansas, the State Board of Education has decided to de-emphasize evolution in favor of the creation story. Throughout the science community, it is believed that evolution should be taught in school because of all the scientific evidence that points to the validity of evolution and because it is a cornerstone of biology. Most all other states emphasize the importance of evolution, as do most colleges. In the ...
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Social Behavior Social System
829 wordsWhat makes all primates the same? The primate order consists of a fairly vast number of species some of which I was able to see up close and personal at this classes recent field trip to the San Diego zoo. Indeed the species belonging to this mammalian order can exhibit almost shocking differences from one species to the next. So in an order of animals that contains differences that can be so vast what ties them all together. What exactly is it that makes a primate a primate? Perhaps providing a...
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Million Years Ago 5 Million Years
1,586 wordsHuman evolution is the biological and cultural development of humans. A human is any member of the species Homo sapiens, meaning wise man. Since at least the Upper Paleolithic era, some 40, 000 years ago, every human society has devised a creation myth to explain how humans came to be. Creation myths are based on cultural beliefs that have been adopted as a legitimate explanation by a society as to where we came from. The science of paleo anthropology, which also tries to create a narrative abou...
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Dominant Male Social Structure
1,760 wordsOrangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus) Man of the Forest Origins The word Orangutan consists of two Malaysian words Oran (person) and Human (forest). Orangutans belong to Primates order of Hominidae family. In Latin, they are referred to as Pongo Pygmaeus. It is believed that their origins can be traced back to Pleistocene period, about 2 million years ago. The area of their habitat used to include most parts of Southeast Asia. However, in our time, orangutans can only be found in secluded areas of Sumatra...
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The Evolution Of Primate Locomotion
2,242 wordsThe evolution of primate locomotion There are many points of view connected to the appearance of men on this planet. However, the majority of scientists state that men have developed though the evolution of primate. According to John Stewarts work The evolution of primates, pp 16 - 24, primates possess well advanced five-fingered, the finiteness adapted to a climbing on branches in the trees. Full division of beam and elbow bones provides mobility and a variety of movements of forward finiteness...
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Learned Behavior Cultural Transmission
618 wordsWriting Assignment One Do primates posses culture? I think that if culture is defined as learned behavior, than it is reasonable to say that primates posses a form of culture. Primates have been observed making tools to aid in collecting food and developing communication system, both of which are learned behaviors. It is common in monkeys, apes and humans that behavior and social organization aren? t necessarily programmed into the genes. There have been several cases where an entire troop has l...
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Alpha Male Important Aspect
1,222 wordsWhy do we study primate behavior? The answer is simple: To learn more about ourselves, and how we, as humans, might have been in our evolutionary past. By studying other primates, we can learn many things about ourselves, and our more anomalistic behaviors. We can learn and develop a series of derived traits or our ancestral traits. Through archaeology we can interpret our ancestor s social patterns and trace the development of our own human culture. Primates are like a mirror into our past, und...
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Million Years Ago Endocrine Glands
1,421 wordsHuman Biology and Evolution Humans are Alive The earliest human life form can be traced back more than 3. 5 billion years ago. Humans are said to be descendants of a single celled ancestor. Although they are different in size and shape all basic functions are alike. The more complex the organization of the cell became the more successful and developed it became. As these single celled organisms developed they became known as pre-humans. We share many characteristics with these pre-humans. Some o...
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Los Angeles South America
2,010 wordsLos Angeles Zoo OBJECTIVE The purpose of this observation was to study the activities and behavior of some selected primates, and to discuss the differences and similarities of these primates. It would have been ideal to examine three primates from each continent, but at the Los Angeles Zoo, the primates there only represented Africa, South America and what the Los Angeles zoo calls Eurasia. For this study I observed three different primates from Africa, two primates from South America, and two ...
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