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1 5 Million Homo Erectus
1,480 wordsGlynn Isaac Defines "the Homebase Hypothesis" It has been argued since Darwin's day that the great apes were man's nearest living relatives, and as evidence emerged during the late 1960 's of the hunting propensities and simple tool use of chimpanzees (Goodall 1986), anthropologists found more and more reason to presume similarity of behavior between modern (e. g. , Pan troglodytes or Pan panics) and ancient varieties of hominids (Tanner 1981). Still, modern humans are not chimps. Substantial di...
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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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000 Years Ago Stone Tools
3,216 wordsTroublesome Questions In 1830 Mr. Rankin tied a rope around a projection out of a rock face in order to lower himself into Wellington Cave (Horton, 1980). The projection turned out to be the bone of a giant extinct marsupial. It was to be the first discovery of a great range of giant marsupials. Were these animals extinct? ? Horton (1980), describes how Leichhart believed that on his journeys to northern Australia he would find Diprotodon still roaming over the land. We now know that he was prob...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,389 wordsHow Man evolved How did the early man evolve and change into the way we are today? Human Evolution, the natural development of the species Homo Sapiens, or human beings. The initial man, called the Hominid was short, not intelligent, and very ape like. The next man lived in the stone age; his name was Homo Habilis. After Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus evolved. He was smarter, more efficient, and walked up-right. And he leaded to us, Homo Sapiens A lot of fossils, bones, and teeth have been found at ...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,421 wordsWorld History Human Evolution Final Copy January 19, 97 How did the early man evolve and change into the way we are today? Human Evolution, the natural development of the species Homo Sapiens, or human beings. The initial man, called the Hominid was short, not intelligent, and very ape like. The next man lived in the stone age; his name was Homo Habilis. After Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus evolved. He was smarter, more efficient, and walked up-right. And he leaded to us, Homo Sapiens A lot of fossi...
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Stone Age Stone Tools
665 wordsOn June 7, 1971, an exploration team led by Secretary Manuel Elizalde, Jr. was able to make an initial contact with an unknown Filipino people who inhabit a vast forested area in the rugged mountainous interior of South Cotabato province in Mindanao Philippines. The discovery of these people is of great scientific interest, particularly to the studies of mans cultural and technological development, for they are food gatherers whose own technology is still based upon the use of stone tools. Among...
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