Australopithecus africanus —–3 mya Homo habilis —–2.5 mya Homo erectus —–2 mya Homo sapiens —–230‚000-450‚000 years ago Homo sapiens sapiens —–40‚000 years ago Homo habilis-2.5 mya -bridge between Afarensis and the Paleolithic Age -larger brain -teeth like modern humans -first to use stone tools and fire Neanderthals- 23‚000-30‚000 years ago * type of Homo sapien * traveled from Africa to Central Asia and the Middle East * might have been wiped out by Homo sapiens sapiens Life
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average fully grown adult Homo sapiens is approximately 1200 to 1600 cubic centimetres and weighing three pounds. In comparison‚ the earliest trace of human ancestors‚ the Australopithecus clan had brains slightly greater than apes‚ around 400 cubic centimetres. Anatomically the Australopithecus were bipedal akin to humans‚ but intellectually akin to primates‚ which suggests that bipedalism preceded the growth of the brain on the timeline of human evolution. The next ancestors‚ Homo habilis had an increased
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Final HIS 111 Rise of Buddhism: The originator of Buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama. He started out as a prince of the Sakya Republic in the Himalayan foothills. At age 29 he left his life of privileged and began to learn under different paths of Vedic schools. In his journey he experienced a great deal of human suffering and he began to teach Buddhism. Buddhism had a great influence on the inhabitants of India during 260 BCE‚ when Ashoka converted to Buddhism. The end goal was for the top of the
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our wisdom teeth‚ and our brains are shrinking. The first sign that humans are still evolving today is due to the fact that we are still drinking milk. Millions of years ago‚ the first Homo sapiens only drank milk from their mothers while they were infants. Once reaching an age of about 4 or 5‚ the body of the Homo sapien would begin to slow down the production of lactase in its body. Lactase is the enzyme that allows mammals to digest the lactose in milk. Any other milk drinking after the production
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know that homo sapiens are completely bipedal such as the Neanderthals‚ but we outlived their species despite our smaller physique and brain size. With the brain‚ it is not the size that matters‚ but the functionality. With a more intricate and compact brain we could outsmart the Neanderthals‚ despite their larger bone structure an overall strength. What the Neanderthals could not do was survive due to environmental changes like Homo sapien sapiens. We have many theories as to why homo sapiens
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Paper 2 Reading: “Homo Religiosus” by Karen Armstrong AND “On Becoming an Arab” by Leila Ahmed Rough Draft Due: Sept. 27th (four copies in class‚ uploaded to Sakai) Final Draft Due: Oct. 4th (one copy in class‚ uploaded to Sakai) In both “On Becoming an Arab” and “Homo Religiosus‚” identities are influenced by interaction with a society at large‚ whether through coming of age rituals and religion as Armstrong describes or through nationalist ideology as Ahmed recounts. Carefully considering the
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first evolved in Africa and then migrated out to Asia and Europe‚ displacing the archaic Homo sapiens already habituated there. In contrast‚ the Multiregional Continuity hypothesis explains that evolution of modern humans occurred regionally and without replacement‚ meaning that each continent’s archaic H. sapiens gave rise to their own modern H. sapiens individually. There have been several discoveries of early homo. These discoveries begin with an individual found in the Kabwe lead mine in Zambia.
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than a knuckle walker. In the article Broke Fingers by David R. Begun in the Journal of Human Evolution‚ begun compares pedal phalangeal (toe) and manual phalangeal (fingers) curvature of various species including homo sapiens. The research exhibits a noticeable line correlation between homo sapiens who have the least amount of curvature of both manual and pedal phalangeal to genus Pongo ancestors of Orangutan with the highest degree. The experiment is conducted using a one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance)
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THE WORLD That’s a rather vague question. The earliest true humans were Homo erectus. These early humans only used stones to begin with. Their earliest technology was called Oldowan and involved breaking smooth‚ rounded pebbles from rivers in rather a crude fashion to get a sharp edge to cut with. Later they developed a more sophisticated technique‚ creating a large‚ hand-held item shaped rather like a teardrop. It had two sharp sides coming to a point and one dull‚ rounded side which the
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advanced. They called it Homo habilis (handy human) because it appeared to be the first human to use tools. The designation of these two new groups raised a great deal of controversy. Zinjanthropus has since been put by most scientists into the Australopithecine genus‚ which the South African finds also belong to‚ though in different species. Homo habilis is now widely accepted‚ dating back about 2 million years. The 1972 discovery by the Leakeys’ son Richard of another Homo habilis (often called Turkana
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