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    The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75‚000 years ago‚ or with earlier hominids including Homo erectusfrom about 500‚000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilisation‚ which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India‚ was the first major civilisation in South Asia. A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period

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    There are several factors contributing to whether or not certain behaviours are criminalized by law in a society. From the sociological aspect‚ there are two major models that explain the origin of law and crimes: the consensus theory and the conflict theory. These two theories have radically different views on what crimes are. “The consensus theory is rooted in John Locke’s (1632-1704) “Social Contract Theory”” (Cox). According to Locke’s theory‚ government is based on a social contract between

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    is an innate feature of the society‚ which derives from our instinct to survive. Scarcity of resources‚ being essential to human existence‚ has always resulted in a some kind of struggle for survival leading back to the times‚ when ancestors of the Homo Sapiens competed with other species for food and habitat. Consequently‚ confronting behaviour is connected to one of the most primitive instincts. Last but not least‚ conflict is an outcome of misperceptions of its participants‚ while misunderstandings

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    Based off the information given in table 1 a number of trends in characteristics can be identified from the Papio anubis to the Homo neanderthalensis. There is a significant trend towards a taller and more vertical posture; this is supported by information gathered on locomotion. Starting from the monkey Papio anubis on the far left of the table‚ it’s movement is quadruped as it moves on all four limbs. Moving right of the table a transition from quadrupedal to bipedal becomes noticeable as the Pan

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    recently viewed in class titled “Discovering Ardi” and produced by Discovery Communications shows the breakthrough finding a full skeleton of a new hominid buried deep beneath the group in Ethiopia that links chimpanzees and apes to the modern day homo sapiens. The amazing discovery was lead by Tim White and his team in Ethiopia looking at ashes from millions of years ago in vast lakes‚ and scorching hot deserts in Hadar‚ Ethiopia when a molar tooth fossil was found dating 3.2 million years ago

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    Chapter 1 Part 1 Early Man • Most of the 2 million plus years of mans existence has been associated with the Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age. • This period had both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens and lasted until 14‚000 years ago. HE disappeared about 40‚000 years ago. HSS are our direct descendants. Hunter/Gatherer and Late Paleolithic Developments • HG economies dominated human history until 9000 BCE and help propel migration over most of the lands of the earth. • Tool

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    Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher who teaches at Princeton University‚ he wrote “The Case for Contamination.” This essay discusses both the negative and positive side of globalization. As you read the essay Appiah flips back and forth between the negative and positive and find that there are cultures who want to continue with their traditional ways. They believe that their culture will slowly fade away with globalization. Other cultures want to grow with the world‚ and believe that globalization

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    their policy is to keep kicking you until you are down. 7. New Zealand Law - You get fined for everything here!!! 6. The AllBlacks (NZ’s Rugby Team) - they symbolise everything I hate‚ beer belching idiots‚ idolising maniacal baboons undertaking homo-erotic acts. 5. The People - The people here are soooooooooooo dumb. A chimpanzee has more intelligence. They are all drunk and stoned‚ and therefore have no brains or ambition in life. 4. The Traffic - I live in Auckland‚ we only have a population

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    New research reveals that horses have the ability to communicate with humans and are very intelligent. I have always thought that most animals are capable of interspecies communication‚ but not to the level that horses are. The article states that “Horses are highly visual animals”. In groups‚ they establish a pecking order‚ mainly by making threats.” This tells us that horses are able to communicate well enough to establish order within their herd. Paragraph 5 states ‘Scientists were interested

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    Jacob Pastva College Writing II Professor Wollenzier 25 September 2012 Back to Your Roots The origin of man has always been a question that the human race has tried to answer‚ but could never quite pinpoint. Homo Sapiens now know the exact start of man‚ due to advances in harvesting mitochondrial DNA. “Markers” are used to trace ancestry. These markers are found through DNA Sequencing and SNP testing. The general acceptance is that the human race stemmed from a woman referred to as “Mitochondrial

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