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19 Th Century Homo Erectus
1,531 wordsAnthropologists and Archaeologists Anthropologists and archaeologists have influenced our lives in so many ways. They have taken us back to our most humble beginnings. They have given us an awareness of just how far we have come through the centuries. Archaeology is the investigating of life by unearthing and interpreting the objects left behind by earlier peoples and cultures, dating back to prehistoric times. Anthropology is the scientific study of hominids, their physical features, developmen...
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Million Years Ago Homo Erectus
1,040 wordsFor years, the evolution of human beings has been researched and studied. In today's society, there are many different interpretations on creation and how humans came to be what they are today. Through much scientific evidence and studies, there is now physical proof that human beings may have evolved from ape-like creatures. Even with this, there are still disputes in the paleo anthropological field of whether or not this is true. Still, many choose to believe their religious creation stories w...
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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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Million Years Ago Thousand Years Ago
1,332 wordsMany people have different views regarding the same topic. Over the years, countless theories have been brought forward to answer the question of human origins. Scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists and religious groups have spent lots of time arguing in support of their own respected theories. With the use of technology such as carbon dating and improvements in scientific methods; new fossil evidence has traced humanities bipedalism back to five million years, shedding some light on human...
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Million Years Ago Homo Erectus
837 wordsIn the video series In Search Of Human Origins, Don Johanson the anthropologist who discovered the oldest human fossil "Lucy" leads us from Lucy's origins as one of our earliest ancestors through the stages of evolution to the present time. Johanson considered Lucy to be "the missing link between ape and human." He discovered her in the Great Rift Valley of Africa and explains that the reason anthropologists search for clues to our origins here is because the ancient layers of the earth have bee...
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Homo Erectus Homo Habits
613 wordsHomo erectus. Homo erectus (straight walking people) lived in the period from 2 million until 400 thousand years ago. There is a version, that they first appeared in Africa and than gradually spread through the rest of the Ancient World. Eugen Dubois found the first fossils of this specie in the end of XIX century on Java Island (1891 - 1893). In the lower-quarter layers, on the left bank of river Solo (or Bengavan), near Trinil were found a skull, one hip bone and three teeth (picture 1). Since...
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Homo Habits East Africa
308 wordsHomo habits is the earliest known species of the genus. It existed from approximately 2. 2 to 1. 6 million years ago in east Africa. Only a few fossil remains have been discovered so far, but these specimens exhibit a clear trend toward larger brain size. H. habits brains are about 30 % larger than those of A. africanus. Males were much larger than females. A skull found in 1972 on the shores of Lake Turkana, it represents the oldest individual human yet found. The kind of environment in which t...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,149 wordsOur Human Evolution Human Evolution Our farthest believed ancestor is believed to be Australopithecus afarensis. This species, which lived between three and four million years ago, is believed to be the first real hominid because it is the oldest, and most primitive of any definite hominid form thus far found. Evidence from fossilized footprints, as well as pelvic and leg bones, which were similar to modern hominids, led scientists to believe that they could walk upright. Its teeth resembled mor...
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Homo Habits Missing Link
1,206 wordsAustralopithecus afarensis, or Lucy as also know, was discovered in November 1974. She was the most complete hominid skeleton that had been found in the world at that time. Being the only complete skeleton that had been found that was older than Neanderthal, she was a great discovery, particularly as she had many distinctive features putting her in a class of her own. This led many scientists to believe that Lucy was and is the missing link in the evolution of mankind. There were however, a numb...
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