With a larger brain, they were able to make better decisions when it came to searching for food. Around 1.5 million years ago, a new variation of the hominid emerged. They were named Homo erectus and were able to make more sophisticated tools. They were the first hominids to leave Africa and travel to parts of Europe and Asia.
In the lore of Tlingit, Haida and other northern Native Americans a raven was both a trickster spirit and the creator of the world. The most interesting story about the raven in Tlingit folklore is the one concerning his responsibility for placement of the Sun in the sky. The story starts with Naas-sháki Shaan – The Old Man, who was very rich. Among his riches were three legendary boxes.
One of the theories that can explain this is Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory. This theory states that development reflects the influence of several environmental systems. There are five environmental systems that are identified within the theory. The microsystem is the setting of an individual, the mesosystem involves relationships and connections between the microsystem and contexts, the exosystem includes links between the social setting in which the individual does not have an active role and the immediate context, the macrosystem involves culture, and the chronosystem consists of patterns and transitions during the life course (Santrock
Your environment plays a big role in the development of you as a
In the excerpt, Loren Eiseley discusses the evolution of the human brain, from being primitive and slow growing to the cognitive and advanced brain that it is now today. Eiseley uses Gavin de Beer’s suggestion as evidence that explains that because various characteristics from the primitive ancestor changed, such as the “hairy covering”, teeth, and sex life, it led to the evolution of longer infancy, which links to the reason why our brains have grown so much. It is through this longer stage of infancy that the brain has more time to develop and grows at a faster rate, which is the reason as to why humans have evolved to be the way they are mentally and physically. Eiseley, through the topic that he discusses, intended for his essay to appeal
Essential question: How does environment shape who we are? The enviorment we grow up in has a big influence on who we become. The people around us like our friends and family often determin our opinions and difrent veiws on things. Our parents raise us with their opinons and their veiws, we tend to belive things similar to the belifes of who we are raised by. They pass on their religious belifes or how they dont belive in religon, what political party they vote for, and certin things they have opinions on.
However, all these inventions came out naturally. Compared to other animals, humans had a larger brain. Therefore, primitive people began to question how to live better, which then resulted in creating the tools. As the author of the text has said, “Isn’t it amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric man… must have realised that meat from wild animals was easier to chew if it was held over a fire?”
2. What textbook chapter and developmental stage are you referencing? Does your topic fall into the physical, cognitive or socio emotional part of development? How did you come to this conclusion and why does your topic fit within this chapter or stage and area of development? I am referring to chapter 12, the socioemotional development in adolescence in relation to the movie Mean Girls.
Which of these adaptations do you think would be more conducive to increasing social complexity, and why? (1 point) To me the highlands were much more conducive to the increased social complexity, due the fact the highland areas had more signs and remains of human use of the land to ensure their survival needs were met. In the highlands the climate and possibly the ground conditions caused them to start domesticating crops for harvest, have more complex living arrangements and eventually once the crops started providing enough sustainability, the people felt secure enough in surviving they took the time to make more ornate baskets and pottery again showing an increased social complexity over the coastal region.
It has recently been suggest that there is no evolutionary trade-off between the brain and the gut, or another expensive organ in hominins (Navarrete et al. 2011: 91-93). Instead encephalization is made possible by the stabilization of energy inputs and the redirection of energy from locomotion, growth and reproduction (ibid.). Larger brains are the result of a shift to eating cooked meat and underground tubers which gradually decreased the size of the digestive track (ibid.). Additionally, the expensive-tissue hypothesis lacks empirical support and nor has it never been fully proved or experimented on (ibid.). Nonetheless, this rebuttal also currently lacks evidence, namely morphological data (ibid.).
One of the many theories that Anthropologist are trying to answer is whether bipedalism or cranial capacity came first in the human ancestry. During recent discoveries, the fossils illustrate that bipedalism came first then the increase of human cranial capacity. Why was it important to be able to walk on two legs instead of the usual four? The evolution of bipedalism enables the human ancestor to use their free hands to create tools which was stated in earlier arguments. Some other arguments state that standing tall makes the primates look more intimidating to other primates.
Substantially, it comes down to the age-old question, do genetics or environment play a greater role in developing
(Own knowledge, Source D) Bipedalism is unique to humans and it is known to be one of the earliest developments in hominids. (Source G, C) This phenomenon has intrigued researchers and historians for a number of years. There are many answers to this involved question; this essay will look at a few of them.
As far as the nature versus nurture argument goes, this evidence appears to be weighted toward the nature side. Stress plays a big role in how much intelligence a single human being has. Stress can put so much pressure on a human body that it can go as far as causing damage to it. Also if a person were to come into contact with a toxin it can affect their intelligence and could cause development issues.
However, I do believe our environment whether it be our home, extended family, or neighborhood tends to shape how we think and our world view, and how we respond. Some people can rise above environmental obstacles due to the strength of their genetic traits." Outline I.) Introduce psychology. II.
