research on homo neanderthals Homo neanderthals * Species restricted to Europe‚ eastern Middle East during height of Ice Age * Evolved to be specifically cold-adapted: * Short and stocky body type * Large nose (nasal passages for warming air) * Barrel chest (also for warming air) * Long‚ low‚ thick skull but with large cranial capacity (close to modern humans) * Heavy brow ridge * Neanderthals’ teeth developed faster than their human cousins‚ new
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HOMO SUBURBIENSIS By Bruce Dawe - Title: Play on words “Homo Sapien” “Suburb” “Ensis=scientific” = Pun (like David Attenborough almost‚ suggesting the man is of a different species and he is being “observed.” Despite how depressing this poem may be there is still humour in the title. However‚ the title does not express “distance.” - Dawe likes to “celebrate the ordinary.” - Poem suggests everybody has their own unique experience. - In amongst suburbia‚ gone to his garden
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believe Homo floresiensis to be – a “one off” freak version of Homo erectus‚ a separate and very unique species‚ or something else . . . Homo floresiensis was a hominoid discovered in a cave called Liang Bua on an Indonesia island. She was examined to be from 17‚000 years ago and nicknamed “the Hobbit” because she was only around a meter tall even though she was an adult. What was more amazing about this hominoid was the small cranial capacity of 417 cc‚ much smaller than a typical early Homo and a
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to fit in the general scheme of human evolution‚ and yet they’re misfits. (Jurmain‚ Kilgore‚ Trevathan and Ciochon. p.367) In a way they are like us the modern Homo sapiens but yet are a very different species. But the real question that needs to be answered is “why the Neanderthals were considered a different species than the Homo sapiens and what made them go extinct?” The first Neanderthal remains were discovered in the year of 1856 in Germany. This discovery of a skullcap and partial skeleton
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evolution of Homo habilis‚ whose brain was 50 percent larger than that of the australopithecines. 3. By 1 million years ago‚ Homo habilis and all of the australopithecines were extinct. They were replaced first by Homo erectus (1.7 million years ago) and then by Homo sapiens (400‚000 to 100‚000 years ago). Genetic evidence suggests that further development emerged around 50‚000 years ago providing the capacity for speech. C. Migrations from Africa 1. Both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens migrated
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“Home Floresiensis - The Hobbit” Homo floresiensis (“Man of Flores”) is the name for a possible new species in the genus Homo‚ remarkable for its small body‚ small brain‚ and survival until relatively recent times (www.en.wikipedia.org). Anthropologists Peter Brown of University of New England in South Wales‚ Australia‚ Michael Morwood and their colleagues have argued that a variety of features‚ both primitive and derived‚ identified LB1 (the first skeleton found in cave of Liang Bua) is
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Homo Neanderthalensis Were Neanderthals a distinct species of the Homo Genus‚ or were they a sub-species of the Homo Sapien? Are modern day humans a product of selective breeding or are they distinctive in DNA to just Homo Sapiens or Neanderthals? To figure this out we will go back to an approximate timeline of over 200‚000 years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch‚ where this fossil‚ and possibly kin‚ resided and thrived. As we know and have all come to understand through media interpretation and display
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Homo erectus Homo erectus (upright man) is an extinct species of hominin that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene‚ with the earliest first fossil evidence dating to around 1.8 million years ago and the most recent to around 143‚000 years ago. The species originated in Africa and spread as far as England‚ Georgia‚ India‚ Sri Lanka‚ China and Java. The discussion about the size and the outer appearance‚ history of discovery and fossils‚ and the humanity‚ dispersal and the daily life of Homo
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to modern humans’‚ while others seemed much less advanced than other species in the genus Homo. It had the brain size of an ape‚ yet had feet almost identical to ours today. Berger decided to name what he believed
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Homo Habilis Hominids with a brain absolutely and relatively larger than that of the australopithecines appeared about 2.3 million years ago. These hominids are classified in our own genus: Homo. The earliest species to appear was the Homo Habilis. It was the first of our ancestors to show a significant increase in brain size and also the first to be found associated with stone tools. These characteristics resulted in this species’ placement into the human genus‚ Homo. Discovery The first fossil
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