Defining behavioral modernity depends on the consideration that behaviorally modern traits are based off of records derived from Western Europe during the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic eras (Nowell 2010: 440). Therefore‚ they are not universal and there has been considerable protest against applying them universally because these traits do not hold true for Africa at this same time period. It is because of this distinction that this paper will focus on behavioral modernity in the genus
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Early Hominids and Tools Jacky Thompson ANT 101 March 20‚ 2013 Even though humans seem to be the most advanced creatures walking this earth‚ we certainly had ancestors before us. We share similar genetic information of other animals. They are what we consider early hominids. Early hominids date as far back as 6 to 8 million years ago. Just like humans‚ they had to have some type of culture in order to survive and make a living. Culture is defined as a dynamic adaptive process of learned
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It has long been wondered by scientists just how the giraffe evolved to have its long neck. The giraffe‚ world’s tallest mammal‚ was thought to have developed its neck to enable it to find food in higher places‚ and that it made it easier for the animal to fight predators. A new study‚ however‚ proves that the evolution of the giraffe’s neck came in several stages. First‚ the neck vertebrae reached into the mammal’s neck‚ and millions of years later‚ the vertebrae extended to the tail. This is the
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According to Pamela S. Soltisand Douglas E. Soltis‚the fossil record that they found out does not clarify basal groups within the angiosperms. However‚ it clearly identifies a number of form and structure of diverse lineages early in angiosperm evolution. The earliest known large fossil confidently identified as an angiosperm‚ Archaefructusliaoningensis‚ is dated to about 125 millionyears or also known as Cretaceous period‚ whereas pollen considered to be of angiosperm origin takes the fossil record
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Time scale The Pliocene Epoch extends from 5.3 million years ago to 2.58 million years ago. This epoch was also a period of cooling down for the Earth after the warm time period of the Miocene Epoch. There was also more advanced primate development of the ancestors of humans. It follows the Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch (2.58 million to 11‚700 years ago). The Pliocene Epoch is a subdivision of the Neogene Period‚ which is a part of the
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Discuss what you 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
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History is the study of the human past. The past has left many traditions‚ folk tales‚ and works of art‚ archaeological objects‚ and books and written records of our accomplishments. Historians have been recording the events of history since the Phoenicians in Africa invented the first alphabet. For instance‚ until the advent of Black History Month‚ our school children learned all of their black history when they studied the plight of slavery in the south prior to the Civil War. Very little truth
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Multi-Regional Continuity: The Fossil Evidence With regards to the multi-regional continuity model of human evolution‚ there is without a doubt a preponderance of fossil data that supports the diverse origins of Homo sapiens in different regions of the globe. Skulls displaying a wide variety of mixed modern and archaic features have been found in every corner of the world. The mere existence of these fossils is evidence enough to prove that human evolution was far less cut-and-dried a process
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Neandertals are often criticized in modern society‚ and were thought of to be less intelligent than humans‚ however it has been proven that Neandertals‚ were in fact very intelligent. The debate on whether Neandertals are considered a separates species from humans has been controversial in the anthropological world. Homo sapiens‚ or humans‚ first popped up around 500‚000 years ago‚ were found globally‚ and showed tendencies of modern human culture (04/19 lecture). Neandertal remains have been dated
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A brief summary of all the archaeological works done on the site is necessary before going deeper into the actual work. Amarna was first discovered by the French Jesuit‚ Father Claude Sicard in 1714. He was the first to describe one of the stelae that delimited the boundary of the city. The first map of Amarna was established by geographers during Napoléon Bonaparte’s expedition in Egypt in 1798-1799.1 The ruins of the city were later explored by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson in the 1820s and an another
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