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    Evolution of Breasts

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    chances of attracting a mate! Different variations of breast size and shape are preferred all around the world‚ but it is no mystery that breasts are valued as an attractive sexual signal to people worldwide. 1. Breast size on primates and Homo sapiens. Throughout evolutionary time breasts have been a clear indicator used to spot a female who is equipped with the physiology necessary for the nurturing of offspring. Breasts have evolved for the obvious reason‚ to provide breast milk for offspring

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    Crossflatts Primary School Morton Lane Crossflatts Bingley West Yorkshire BD16 2EP Tel: 01274 782070 louarmour@hotmail.com 26 August 2011 Dear Reader‚ Re: Darwin‚ Evolution and the Origins of Life I wrote this plan (see below) as a Topic for our Yr5/6. Time constraints meant I couldn’t cover everything I wanted to cover during ‘Topic’. Other investigations that may have been included are: Artificial Selection Why are cows and sheep not extinct? Why are there so many kinds of

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    gene is. It was determined that the species‚ Danio rerio‚ Xenopus tropicalis‚ Mus musculus‚ Rattus norvegicus‚ and Homo sapiens all shared similar functions for this gene. Thus the assumption was made that L. cuprina had to have a similar if not exactly the same as the closest species to it. Reading the tree‚ that species would have to be Mus musculus‚ Rattus norvegicus‚ and Homo sapiens. Discussion The main discovery of all of this research is that the function of the msl-1 gene is acetylation of

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    I.THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO 1.1 Pacific Theory * By Beily Willis (geologist) * Occurs 200 million years ago in Pacific Ocean ( Eastern Region of Asia) * When volcanoes erupted continuously . (volcanism) * Japan‚Taiwan‚Indonesia‚ Solomon islands and new Zealand (pacific ring of fire) * 250 volcanoes in said countries and 22 active volcanoes in Phil. 1.2 Asiatic Theory * By Dr. Leopoldo Faustino * Diastrophism (deformation of Major feature

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    Paleolithic vs. Neolithic

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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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    ultimately gave rise to the genus Homo‚ which includes Homo sapiens. But not everyone agrees with this view. Critics say the skeletons are not old enough to be the precursors to Homo. Others say the similarities can be chalked up to the diversity of early hominids‚ but that aspects of A. sediba’s anatomy make it unlikely candidate for being our forebears. Donald Johanson‚ the Arizona State University paleoanthropologist who discovered “Lucy” in 1974‚ said the first homo species appeared 2.4 million

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    Although most historians say that pre-history is not important‚ it is actually very important because that is where it all started. Paleolithic Age‚ which refers to the hunting and gathering way of life‚ is 95% of the human history. 100‚000 years ago‚ Homo sapiens started using tools to manipulate their surroundings‚ and migrating and adapting to new environments. They traveled to Eurasia‚ Australia‚ Western hemisphere‚ and the Pacific islands. Then they started farming‚ which lead to an era with more technology

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    The first statement was that “Scientists have reached general agreement in recognizing that mankind is one: that all men belong to the same species‚ Homo sapiens‚" (Montagu 1972). This meaning that during the time of him writing this many scientists were coming to the consensus that all humans belong to the Homo sapien family. This was very blunt to the point because the prior belief was mainly that African Americans were not the same species as Caucasians. This statement made it so

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    theme throughout the book. An example of this was when humans first domesticated animals. During the Neolithic ages‚ as Homo Sapiens began to develop like modern day humans‚ they began to find ways to establish life that was not only on the move. Before this point‚ all humans had to hunt and gather food for survival‚ and they were always on the move. Around 10‚000 years ago‚ Homo Sapiens inhabited every area of land besides the Antartica. As they expanded in number‚ innovations allowed them to become

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    Epipalaeolithic

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    nature‚ these have not been preserved to any great degree. Surviving artifacts of the Paleolithic era are known as Paleoliths. Humankind gradually evolved from early members of the genus Homo such as Homo habilis — who used simple stone tools — into fully behaviorally and anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) during the Paleolithic era. The Neolithic Age‚ Era‚ or Period‚ or New Stone Age‚ was a period in the development of human technology‚ beginning about 9500 B.C.E. in the Middle East

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