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    future to aide the human exploration and life span? Informational Technology is important to the society because technology make human life easier and let people settle down in life. Technology helped the homo-sapiens advance‚ but not the Neanderthals‚ because the Neanderthals did not use it. ”Homo habilis is usually considered

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    Jacob Pastva College Writing II Professor Wollenzier 25 September 2012 Back to Your Roots The origin of man has always been a question that the human race has tried to answer‚ but could never quite pinpoint. Homo Sapiens now know the exact start of man‚ due to advances in harvesting mitochondrial DNA. “Markers” are used to trace ancestry. These markers are found through DNA Sequencing and SNP testing. The general acceptance is that the human race stemmed from a woman referred to as “Mitochondrial

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    The Sixth Extinction According to the information given by Niles Eldredge‚ about 30‚000 species go extinct annually. The first five major extinctions that have happened in the past were due to natural causes. The first started with severe and sudden global cooling and lost 25% of families. The second happened near the end of the Devonian Period and may or may not have been the result of a global climate change of which 19% of families were lost. Evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar

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    demanded his name since he gave it life. They disputed the name for a while and then they realized that Kronos needed to decide. “… Since there is controversy about his name‚ let him be homo‚ since he is made from humus” (Atsma line 8). Kronos decided the name homo‚ and that now stands for everyday people‚ homo

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    scientific studies on what are documented as human ancestors from the past and recent history‚ it stands to reason that humans are herbivorous (vegetarian) by nature 3. Biological Overview Humans have longer digestive tracts The teeth and jaw of homo sapiens are just Like Like Like Carnivores 768 views 1.5 Animal Needs 1137 views Divya durga art of eating 253 views recently starting to adapt to that of an omnivorous diet Vegetarianism 2284 views http://www.slideshare.net/ready2play/are-humans-vegetarian-by-nature-3520820

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    dominant‚ and displacing the weakest. The physical characteristics‚ anatomical of each species are related to the environment that they lived and which has had to adapt. Based on history‚ ancient man possessed solid jaws‚ long arms‚ unlike today Homo sapiens (man)‚ you can see the physical changes along the paramount aspect through the years. Another aspects that has to be noted for this adaptation’s process are: the ability to use hands and the intelligence used. All these factor helped them in creating

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    Darwin destroyed the concept of human specialness I would say I disagree quite strongly with the assertion that Darwin destroyed the specialness of humanity. For this relatively brief paper I am going to attempt to refute this claim and try to highlight some of the things that highlight how we have kept the same level of ’specialness ’ that we have always had. There are many people who would say that we humans are the only beings with full consciousness‚ in the words of a great many this would

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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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    Skeleton in My Body by Ray Bradbury & Leaping Poetry by Robert Bly is about people being bones and brains or rather mind and body. This is the cycle of life: spirit and body. Conception‚ birth‚ toddler‚ childhood‚ adolescence‚ coming of age and adulthood is what makes us who we are. Humans have 3 types of brains: reptilian‚ mammalian‚ and nonmammalian. Each one has a special job and some parts will be stronger than others‚ depending who you are. “The term “reptilian” refers to our primitive‚

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    Human Use of Animals: Summary and Critique Charles Hall Ivy Bridge College In his interviews with both The Open University and The Colbert Report‚ Dr. Peter Singer discusses the unethical human use of animals. Most of his claims are highly controversial and are not taken well by most people. Human Use of Animals: Summary and Critique The use of animals in modern civilization has been a controversial subject for the past few decades. Author and Philosopher Peter Singer has made his standpoint

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