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    Many experts argue over where humans originated from and which human migration and evolution theory is most reliable. With a good hypothesis‚ factual evidence‚ and logic‚ many theories seem plausible. However‚ there are many holes in each theory (whither it be the out of Africa theory‚ the out of Australia theory‚ the out of Asia theory‚ or the multiregional theory) which leaves many puzzled when it comes to choosing which theory is the most authentic and trustworthy. Out of Africa The

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    The history of African Americans is one the most in depth historical groups to have ever walked the earth. While some believe the history first started with slavery‚ most will know that African Americans derive from ancestors in Africa where the beginning of everything started. During the 1920s in New York City‚ an explosion of the arts took place in Harlem and this was known as the Harlem Renaissance. Poets such as Langston Hughes‚ James Weldon Johnson‚ musicians such as Duke Ellington‚ Cab Calloway

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    Evolution of Man

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    Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation‚ including species‚ individual organisms and molecules such as DNAand proteins.[1]All life on earth is descended from a last universal ancestor that lived approximately 3.8 billion years ago. Repeated speciation and the divergence of life can be inferred from shared sets of biochemical and morphological

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    Evolution is change over a long period of time. An organism’s characteristics change over time due to its DNA. The DNA determines how an organism looks. The process of evolution is over millions of years. Scientists use fossils‚ embryology‚ comparative anatomy‚ and the biochemistry to get data fro the organisms of their evolutionary histories. For this purpose for doing this lab is to related organisms’ skull evolved or change over time. Fossils are past living remain organism that left behind and

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    History Reviewer Unit I History- is the study of human past. - Study of origins‚ beginnings‚ changes in the humans and the environment in which they lived Lesson 1 The Origin of the Earth 18th century- 1700-1799 James Hutton- geologist who asserted that the Earth is in existence for quite a long period of time. Geologists- study the Earth‚ the Earth’s crust‚ rocks‚ as well as plant and animal remains. Geologic time scale- formulation of various events that transpired million

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    Bibliography: Edgar‚ Blake‚ and Johanson‚ Donald. From Lucy to Language. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 1996. Fagan‚ Brian. The Journey from Eden - The Peopling of Our World. London: Thames and Hudson‚ 1990. Gallagher‚ Richard B.‚ Michael Murphy‚ and Luke O ’Neill. "What Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where

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    Know the approximate time boundary between prehistory and history and what development it is based on. Archaeologists define prehistory as that portion of human history that extends back some 2.5 million years before the time of written documents and archives. History is the study of human experience through the time of written documents‚ has a much shorter time span. Written records go back to the 5‚000 years ago in western Asia. 1. What percentage of human existence has been in prehistoric

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    Australopithecus * A. afarensis * 3.9-3 mya * Only found in East Africa * At least 120 individuals found (well represented) * Skull shows it was small brained * Had a small degree of post-orbital constriction * Small to no

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    Spodek Guided Notes Chapter 1 A. The Dry Bones Speak I. Human Origins in Myth and History - Paleoanthropology - A student of the earliest humans and the setting in which they lived. - Humans all over the world made stories to explain origin (Before diggers came with interpretations and cussing). o They tell how and why humans came to Earth. a. Early Myths - Myth – An interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep moral message. - Caste – Social‚ economic

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    Climate Effects on Human Evolution This article explores the hypothesis that key human adaptations evolved in response to environmental instability. This idea was developed during research conducted by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program. Natural selection was not always a matter of ‘survival of the fittest’ but also survival of those most adaptable to changing surroundings. (Illustrations for this article coming soon.) Background Paleoanthropologists – scientists who

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