The word mega in megafauna means huge and fauna means animals. When you put it together it means huge animals which is what megafauna were. Most megafauna were over 40kg and 30% bigger then their relatives who are alive today. They’ve existed for over 11 million years but then disappeared in a mass extinction 46‚000 years ago. There are several ideas of how they became extinct which includes the ill‚ kill and chill factors. Ill being a disease which infected the megafauna and ultimately killed them
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Sex at Dawn Since Darwin’s Origin of the Species‚ we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes natural. Mainstream science‚ as well as religious and cultural institutions‚ has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity. In this groundbreaking book‚ however‚ Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food‚ child care‚ and‚ often‚ sexual partners
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SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY ZPY 114-HR7A Handout No. 2 Anthrophology- coined from two Greek words anthropos which means “man” or “human being” and logos which means “knowledge”. Four Main Fields of Anthropology 1. Physical or biological anthropology-studies human beings through genetics‚ inherited traits‚ evolution and adaptation. It is called physical anthropology because the data it uses are mainly physical to gather information on the evolutionary development of man. 2. Cultural Anthropology-it
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continues to ask "why". Its incurable disability‚ however‚ lies in its insistence that the answer to that question can be determined with certainty on the basis of revelation and faith. We do not know‚ though we may assume‚ that our pre-homo sapiens ancestors (the erectus‚ the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals‚ with whom we have a traceable kinship as we do with other surviving primates) had deities that they sought to propitiate. Alas‚ no religion of which we are now aware has ever taken their existence
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June 25‚ 2013 Skipworth Coconut Wars The “Social Contract Theory” is a theory that without the unofficial introduction of morals of right and wrong‚ we would all be living in a world worse than that our homo-erectus ancestors inhabited in such a way that there would be no “we” but just our self interest in the desire to survive. There would be no groups‚ no tools‚ and no interactions other than that of violence (such as rape and murder)‚ but just pain‚ fear
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Summer AP World History The Case for Big History “Big History” should be the prevailing way of to how we view history. “Big History” includes more than just human history‚ but also ranges from the creation of earth (the big bang theory) to how history has an effect on us today. It includes information about our world‚ universe and all things leading up to this very day. History is a crucial must‚ if we are to understand our world. If we know things of the past on a larger time scale‚ we may
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Climate Effects on Human Evolution This article explores the hypothesis that key human adaptations evolved in response to environmental instability. This idea was developed during research conducted by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program. Natural selection was not always a matter of ‘survival of the fittest’ but also survival of those most adaptable to changing surroundings. (Illustrations for this article coming soon.) Background Paleoanthropologists – scientists who
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Data Communications Table of Contents Introduction Communications is an essential part of our daily lives and has being an essential part of how man has evolved since the origin of the human species. The means in which we communicate with one another has vastly developed since the dawn of time. Man has always needed a way to communicate a message with one another no matter how simple or complex the message was. This need to communicate is why data
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Biology – living organisms Scientific Method – making observations‚ proposing ideas about how something works‚ testing ideas‚ discarding or modifying -allows us to solve problems and answer questions efficiently and effectively. -Ideas about “how things work” = hypothesis. -proposed explanation for one or more observations -scientific hypothesis MUST be testable -must be falsifiable (observations could prove false) Observations Question Hypothesis = imagination‚ intuition‚ chance
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World History Midterm Exam Review ****You will also be given a series of maps‚ charts‚ graphs‚ etc) Terms/names bronze Neolithic Revolution civilization Homo erectus Catal Huyuk culture Neanderthal cuneiform Ur trade Fertile Crescent pharaoh Polytheism Shang Hammurabi loess Indus Valley dynasty Hieroglyphics pictographs the Royal Road Hyksos Babylon Legalism Confucianism Great Wall of China Kush Assyria Meroe Persia Demosthenes Dorians Mycenaeans Rhodes phalanx Peloponnesian
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