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Body Hair Human Evolution
1,701 wordsHuman Evolution: the water theory. Elaine Morgan The crucial question about human evolution is why humans differ so strikingly from the African apes despite their close genetic relationship. Most Darwinists would agree that such differences are usually attributable to differing environmental pressures; and hence that our ancestors at some stage probably occupied a significantly different habitat from the ancestor of the gorilla and the chimpanzee. For the last half-century it has been generally ...
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Adipose Tissue Body Temperature
1,704 words... y requirements of its growing brain continues to devote roughly 70 % of its growth potential to increasing this fat deposit, reaching peak adiposity of around 25 % of its body mass by the age of nine months. These facts would not be predicted. either as part of the inheritance from early arboreal ancestors nor as adaptations to a life on the plains of Africa. One suggested explanation stressed the need of storing energy against possible food shortages, as in hibernating mammals. But the fat ...
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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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Bipedal Locomotion Biped Ally Bipedalism
646 wordsBipedal Locomotion in Early Hominids Until recently, the oldest fossil species to provide evidence for bipedalism was Australopithecus afarensis, of which the best example of is the 3. 2 million year old skeleton called Lucy found in Hadar, Ethiopia. According to article 19: Sunset at the Savanna, in 1995 Make Leakey of the national Museums of Kenya and her colleagues made public the discovery of and older hominid species Australopithecus anamnesis (getting its name from the Turkana word for lak...
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Evolution Of Man Ability To Manipulate
1,660 wordsHuman AncestoryThe evolutionary relationships of Australopithecus and Homo are still argued today among top anthropologists. The direct human phylogeny is not certain, and many links to modern man from four million years ago are possible. What is not argued, however, is that the evolution of man was an evolution from the neck up, rather than from the neck down. After our transition from the arboreal region of Africa to the terrestrial area of the savanna, our physiology below the neck, for the m...
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Millions Of Years Adipose Tissue
3,426 wordsHuman Evolution: the water theory. Elaine Morgan The crucial question about human evolution is why humans differ so strikingly from the African apes despite their close genetic relationship. Most Darwinists would agree that such differences are usually attributable to differing environmental pressures; and hence that our ancestors at some stage probably occupied a significantly different habitat from the ancestor of the gorilla and the chimpanzee. For the last half-century it has been generally ...
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Million Years Ago 5 Million Years
1,716 wordsThe Earliest Hominine's The first undoubted homicide discovered thus far is Ardipithecus radius, which was found in 1994 and is known from 17 fragments of teeth and bone. It dates to approximately 4. 4 million years ago. Thought to be the descendent genus of Ardipithecus is the genus Australopithecus; individuals of this genus were bipeds while on the ground and had ape-like brains and dexterous hands. There are at least six species of Australopithecus: A. anamnesis, A. afarensis, A. aethiopicus...
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