biophysical and cognitive transition was a breakthrough in motor and mimetic skills‚ permitting the development of body language as a form of representation and communication. This change‚ he says‚ occurred around one and a half million years ago as Homo erectus appeared. The resulting mimetic culture was based on the new-found capability for self-triggered rehearsal and for voluntary representational acts that facilitated sociocultural development. Skilled tool-making‚ gesture‚ dance‚ mime and ritual
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Think About As You Read 1. How did the first people live? 2. What started the agricultural revolution? 3. Why did the Stone Age farmers live near rivers? New Words • Archaeologists • Earth • Tools • Stone Age • Agricultural Revolution • Tame THE FIRST PEOPLE The first people did not live the way we live today. They did not grow food or live in houses. They did not read or write. In this chapter we will learn how the first people lived. Archaeologists help us learn about people
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I. Introduction Planet of Life: Apes to Man is narrated by Stacy Keach and it was originally produced and presented by the Discovery Channel. This series shows us about the history of evolution on this planet and each episode has a separate chapter in the biography of the world. This series also shows us that one group of primates moved onto plains where they evolved the ability to stand upright. They used computer and technology to examine the evolution of humans so that the series will be clear
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The article “Why humans need less sleep than any other primate” published on the Earth section of the BBC website explains how the human brain has developed to need a little amount of sleep compared to the one of other primates (monkeys and apes). We sleep less‚ but we have more quality sleep and this may be the cause of our success as a species. In this essay‚ I will focus on some aspects of the language used by the writer. Both elements of formal and informal writing converge in the text. Firstly
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Biological Anthropology within the broader field of Anthropology. Archaeological methods‚ models‚ and Evolutionary theory are addressed and discussed. A major component of the class will be Human Evolution looking at the fossil evidence of our species‚ Homo sapiens including new and recent discoveries. Learning Objectives The goal of this course is to introduce students to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology focussing on human evolution from our earliest ancestors who walked upright‚ through to
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* Civilization Features of civilization: * government * jobs * art/arcitecture * laws * religion * cities * WRITING (very important) * social classes * technology At this time‚ all governments are monarchies. The king usually had divine and unquestionable power until the area over which he rules starts failing. Then people rebel. The earliest writing is in pictures‚ mostly caligraphy and such. The first to develop writing is most
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The Various Lines of Evidence From the discussion of the author‚ David Robson‚ it could be deduced that there are at least two lines of evidence that I found the most significant. First of all‚ among the evidences presented‚ the stone tools were the principal evidence aside from the fossils of the early humans for the said items could be considered as expository artifacts of our ancestors’ development into becoming humans. Not only do they show how the first organisms lived‚ but they also tell
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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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