mechanism of evolution. The natural selection theory was Charles Darwin’s theory, he popularized the term and compared it to other artificial selection. The theory basically stated that people with certain variants of trait may survive and reproduce more than individuals with other, less successful variants; thus causing the population to evolve. He believed that the world was much older than people taught, and that over time creatures had slowly evolved and changed; including the human species. He
records or transactions. Since you only need to keep track of records in a large, sediment civilization writing was developed in Sumer first. There is debate about how administrative bodies came about. Aristotle claimed that it is a natural condition of human societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims that states are formed by social contract, a rational decision formed by when people calculated their self-interest and did away with simpler societies. Another theory is that when large scale irrigation was
canter. Also, Homo sapiens have a larger brain size, which in part helped with the evolution of verbal communication. Another important characteristics that Homo sapiens have were that they were extremely intelligent and developed very practical tools. They created long spears, bow and arrow, and fish hooks. Homo habilis had retained ape-like features such as long arms and prognathism. Homo sapiens were the first human species to create art mostly in caves of Southern France and Northern Spain. Homo
The journal article “Climatic conditions for the last Neanderthals: Herpetofaunal record of Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar,” centers on the last evidence of Neanderthals extinction in the cave and first evidence of modern humans. The article, addresses the question, could it have been the terrestrial climate change in the late Pleistocene sequence of Gorham’s cave, Southern Iberia that caused Neanderthals extinction. The data collected to address this question started with fieldwork by sorting herpetofuana
Jared Diamond's novel, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a speculation about how and why the Europeans emerged as the fundamental power in prior times and conquered such an extensive amount the world. Diamond considers how the Europeans could have so much power and progressed technology while whatever remains of the world was all the while hunting and gathering. In spite of the fact that Diamond is not the first to conjecture on this convoluted subject, his answer is revolutionary. Individuals have credited
Jared Diamond’s thesis in Guns, Germs and Steel provides an answer to one of the most fundamental underlying questions in human history: why is there such a gap between the “haves and have-nots” (GGS, 93)? He uses evidence from the origins of human history to answer this question. However, until the Industrial Revolutions, the differences between the societies were minute, and at different times, different societies were most advanced. Thus, Diamond’s thesis is erroneous because the inventions of
In This Fleeting World: A Short History Of Humanity , author David Christian tells a theory of Homo Sapiens from the beginning of time to now, and tells why it’s important to know of it. His Argument to to show how humans have changed over time from the first humans to the humans now and why that is so important. The book starts with a Preface (written by Bob Bain and Lauren McArthur Harris.) And it talks about how world history in a whole is a very hard subject to learn or even teach at times. In
possession of a very large brain and the ability to walk upright are qualities unique to humans amongst primates, the latter emerged much before the former. In this essay I will first discuss the different ways living and extinct hominins have adapted to bipedalism, then look at the positive and negative impacts it has had on our lineage, before concluding whether bipedalism was and is an achievement of evolution. The anatomical differences between early hominins and existing apes were first made apparent
This article represents the science field of anthropology, which is the study of humankind and its development through evolution, resulting in several pre-existent branching species such as the recently found Homo naledi in a small South African cave. William Jungers, an anthropologist at Stony Brook School of Medicine, reports how if the bones are as old as they expect then Homo naledi is an early version of Homo erectus, if they are not as old as they expect that Homo naledi are a variation born
questioning whether the Neanderthal extinction was due to the competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH) and the increasing AMH population and expansion, or the climate changes towards the end of the Marine Isotope Stage 3, during which was a time interval when there were rapid changes in temperatures which impacted the climate and vegetation. In the article, scientists have inferred that humans were present in Western Europe and northern Iberia just before the Heinrich event 4 using palynological