This chunky little ancestor has had a huge influence on modern humans‚ as well! Over a million years of hefty evolution is tough to slim down! From this point on we see some of the large – even gigantic human forms develop. Homo Heidelbergensis Homo heidelbergensis lived in Europe and Western Asia from at least 600‚000-200‚000 years ago‚ and may date in Africa‚ as far back as 1.3 million years. Rhodesian or Broken Hill man‚ was a Zambian counterpart dated from 300‚000 to 125‚000 years ago. H. heidelbergensis
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We know what we know about history from the examining of fossils‚ DNA records‚ ‚ and technological advances overtime. Spearheaded by the Germans discovery of the skullcap and limbs‚ archaeologists gather information‚ make inferences‚ and use their imaginations to construct how things use to be. The conditions of the fossils let us know the kinds of conditions people/animals lived in. This can be problematic because for example‚ Neanderthal bones and deer bones were mixed together with some of the
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Robotic Development The researchers in “New Robot Has Come to Conquer Human Race…With Snacks!” By Aaron Saenz are on the frontier of robot development. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon are developing a robot named SnackBot which goes around offering snacks to people. In the experiment of SnackBot in the workplace the researchers were observing the social interaction of humans and robots as well as the aesthetics. They were determining if it was well received‚ if its height was too small or too
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Anthropology-101 BONOBOS Species Origination and Geographical Distribution -The bonobo is the most recently discovered great ape in modern times. It was revealed in 1929 by German anatomist Ernest Schwarz that a skull once thought belonging to a juvenile chimpanzee was in fact a new subspecies of chimpanzee known now as the Pan paniscus‚ or bonobo. (Waal 6) During the Pleistocene epoch approximately 1.5 million years ago‚ the Congo River was formed in what is now the Democratic Republic
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THE OPPOSABLE THUMB The Opposable Thumb In a search for uniquely human adaptations‚ many might say that our opposable thumb is one adaptation that is distinctly human. This is not entirely true‚ however‚ as according to Damonte (2004) opposable thumbs appear in other species such as gorillas‚ orangutans‚ and chimpanzees‚ as well as‚ opossums‚ pandas‚ and even frogs (Hornaday‚ 1914). The following paper will describe the adaptation of the opposable thumb‚ trace its evolution‚ and discuss the types
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Living organisms survive due to their ability to adapt to their environment through natural selection. Horses have existed for millions of years‚ but observing a Hyracotherium‚ we may have not been able to recognize it as a horse due to the changes that have occurred since the Eocene epoch. These changes in environment have changed the equine morphology to improve its fitness to the horse we understand today by changing its skull‚ teeth‚ and limbs. Hyracotherium fossils suggest that this horse
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How do primates represent spatial information mentally and use this information for navigation? Researchers have proposed two major mental map representations of space in non-human primates. In a route-based or topological spatial representation map‚ primates have ideal pathways that they make use of repeatedly. Route-based makes also consist of discrete chosen landmarks as reference points to arrive at numerous locations from distinct directions (Urbani‚ 2009). In comparison‚ euclidean (coordinate-based)
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English I Honors January 31 2013 Different Faces- Similar DNA: Humankind’s Closet Relative the Bonobo Most people wonder at one time in their life or another if we‚ the human species‚ are indeed really alone in this vast universe or if there’s some other intelligent‚ similar life form out there. What most people do not realize is that there is and it is right under their nose- Bonobos. This great ape species is one of humankind’s closest relatives‚ and we share about 96-98% of our DNA. (Latest
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Tool Use Among Chimpanzees Jane Goodall was the first person to ever document seeing a non-human animal create and use tools. (Atkinson) We now see that tool use among chimpanzees is not uncommon. Upon this discovery we have figured out they have many ways to use and craft tools. There is a bit of a difference between tool uses and acquisition among wild and captive Pan troglodytes. The wild chimpanzees have all types of materials to choose and work from in the wild and rely more on tool use for
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The Plea for the Chimpanzees In the story “The Plea for the Chimpanzees” by Jane Goodall‚ Jane writes of a personal experience on her visit to a testing center where they use various primates to test products‚ one being chimpanzees. She was very upset with what she had seen during her visit. Chimpanzees were being treated horribly during and after being tested. Their living conditions were not what she would have thought them to be. They were quite worse. They had very little a social life with
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