The Cooperation Instinct This article explains how even though in todays world‚ everybody is trying to make it the top‚ everybody is still helping each other as an instinct that is common among other species as well. We as well as some animals are considered “eusocial” species which are those that live in highly connected structures inhabited by many generations at once. Since we are eusocial‚ our species tend to look after each other in various situations. Bill Hamilton mathematically calculated
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TOPIC: The physical characteristics of the Australopithecus hominid. The first Australopithecus hominid (later named Australopithecus africanus) was discovered in by an anatomy professor in Johannesburg‚ South Africa named Raymond Dart in 1924. Prof. Dart initially discovered a five year old skull and it was unlike that of an ape’s he had ever seen. According to!!!!!!!!!‚ Studying the skull‚ he made the following discoveries: -The skull had “ape-like” features -had a projecting face -small brain
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Mark Mariano Professor Guenther Anthropology 131 November 25‚ 2012 Primate Observation Primates are one of the most interesting mammals on earth‚ not only because of their complex social structures‚ but because they hold so many similar characteristics to humans. Primates are often cited as our closest living relatives and on two separate occasions I observed four separate species of primates at the San Diego Zoo that can justify their use of their physical characteristics and
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Rifkin is able to make his audience believe that we should do more for animals by using very negative language when talking about how we currently treat animals. At the end of his article there is a paragraph where Rifkin asks a lot of questions. Almost all of his questions have negative words. For example‚ he talks about "animals subjected each year to painful laboratory experiments" and "raised under the most inhumane conditions." He also says that animals are "for slaughter and human consumption
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Surviving in Africa Film Summary Three million years ago in Africa‚ early hominids walked around upright. What we know about them is minimal and teams of archaeologists spend their lives searching for clues that might help us to better understand their ways of life. Don Johanson‚ a well-known archaeologist‚ and his team spent many years in Africa in the early 70s searching for remains left behind by our early ancestors. In 1974 Don discovered a bipedal skeleton that was about one third
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We humans have many questions like‚ what set us toward the path of Humanity. This documentary Homo sapiens‚ the Birth of Humanities gives us the answer to this question and many others. However‚ not only that‚ but also provide us with many facts that we have never known before. The film produces Rift Valley in Africa 2 million years ago‚ where our first ancestors were found. The cycle/birth of humans began way before that around 1‚300‚000 years when the Homo erectus species really similar to humans
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Animals are sometimes housed in zoos for beneficial reasons such as educational purposes‚ providing habitat for animals unable to survive in the wild‚ and research purposes. A significant amount of research is conducted on factors that might be stressful to wildlife to improve the welfare and well-being of captive animals; however‚ an equal amount of research is not being performed on each stress factor that could affect captive wildlife. Despite zoo animals being put on display and constantly exposed
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Methods Subjects: Franklin Park Zoo is home to seven Western Lowland Gorillas. Kiki who was born in captivity on August 23rd‚ 1981 at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She has been at Franklin Park Zoo since July 11th‚ 1989. Kiki has four offspring’s that were also born in captivity. Kitombe who was born in captivity on September 20th‚ 1986 at the Audubon Zoo. He has been at Franklin Park Zoo since July 7th‚ 1998. Kimani was born in captivity on November 24th‚ 2004 at the Franklin Park Zoo
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The monkey‚ which is a completely intelligent creature‚ is not as understood as it should be‚ especially by humans‚ who are so close to the species‚ at least‚ scientifically speaking. Recently‚ PPcorn released an article describing just some of the many ways monkeys are unique and special. Today‚ we will continue our list. Number Eight: They Don’t Swing. We realize the implications of this sort of statement‚ but that is now what we are talking about at all. Monkeys‚ different from apes‚ do not swing
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In The Dietary Adaptations of European Miocene Catarrhines journal report‚ written by researchers Peter S. Ungar and Richard F. Kay‚ the findings show that the European Miocene apes varied greatly in their dietary consumption in comparison to modern apes. This was done by Ungar and Fay analyzing the development of the molar shearing crest found in the jaws of Miocene hominid specimens found in Europe. One helpful piece of information that helped shaped this research is knowing how folivorous apes
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