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    Archaeological discoveries made in the 1920s play a vital role in understanding how and when ancient Americans and their descendants resided in North America. Their culture and way of life. In the following paragraph I will discuss how the Folsom discoveries helped scholars understand the migration of ancient American into the Western Hemisphere‚ their origin as well as the geological condition that facilitated the migration. And finally how the interaction between Native American and the environment

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    Many processes have taken place to shape humans from the Australopithecus Afarensis to the modern day human also known as the Homo Sapien. As a result‚ the two defining traits that occurred by taxonomy are the effects of brain size and bipedalism. Humans‚ like other primates are considered as Order Primates in the Hominidae family and therefore are a prime example of taxonomy when the two diverged into different species. During taxonomy when humans diverged from their ancestors 6 to 7 million years

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    understand Ex : digestive system of a cat vs. a dogs then the cat and dog systems vs. a humans‚ etc. Organization * EX : Human Kingdom : Animal Phylum : Chordates Class :Mammalia Order : primates Family : Hommidae Genus : Homo Species : Sapiens Homo sapiens always underline Latin names Organisms Must obtain energy Grow Reproduce Basic traits Cells Evolution via natural selection Theory vs. Hypothesis Theory Broad pattern Series of supported hypotheses Hypothesis Scientific

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    Cynthia Bibina ENG 101-039 Sarah Stephens 11 April 2017 Essay #3 Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Fifty thousand years ago‚ a few amount of Homo sapiens left their area of origin from Africa to the occidental world. These men exploited the fauna and flora in an ever more efficient way. They have undoubtedly also set new forms of social organization. With the sedentary lifestyle and under pressure of natural selection‚ they tried to make life easier and more comfortable. The growing crops and raising

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    are already extinct.” There are two distinct ways in which the human species could become extinct: first‚ it is by evolving or transforming into one or more new species or life forms‚ amply particular from what came before so as not count more as Homo sapiens; the second‚ It is by simply a natural process as dying out‚ without any valid replacement. His opinion is partly based on the controversial “Doomsday argument” and on his own opinions about the restraint of this argument (Bostrom 2002a).

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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.[1] 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.[2] A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature

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    Anthropologists say that we are humans because of evolution. The portion of DNA that is responsible for the structure of proteins is 99.4% common in humans and chimpanzees. The dictionary says that human beings are individuals of the genus Homo‚ or more specifically‚ Homo sapiens. That only answers the anthropological aspect of what makes us human. Paul Bae also takes the anthropological stance on humankind saying that “Changes caused by evolution and time make us human.” When asked what separates humans

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    a.VOCABULARY Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals (also known as zoolites)‚ plants‚ and other organisms from the remote past.   artifact or artefact  is "something made or given shape by man‚ such as a tool or a work of art‚ esp an object of archaeological interest". A nomad is a member of a community of people who move from one place to

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    into your own phylogenetic tree diagram you believe based on their shared characteristics. (a) Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) (b) Ectoedemia castaneae (moth) (c) Hyla cinerea (tree frog) (d) Rattus rattus (rat) (e) Danio rerio (zebrafish) (f) Homo sapiens (human) (g) Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) (h) Lumbricus terrestris (earthworm) (i) Sus scrofa (pig) (j) Bos taurus (cattle) (k) Mus musculus (mouse) List the shared characteristics (you may want to review chapters 33 and 34 for identifiable

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    system we still use today. This system is known as the binomial system‚ where each species of plant and animal is given a genus name (a general name) followed by a specific name (species)‚ with both names being in Latin. For example‚ we are Homo sapiensHomo is the genus that includes modern humans and closely-related specie. Linnaeus named over 12‚000 species of plants and animals‚ although some have had to be renamed because we know more about them now. Linnaeus

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