Article Review #3 The article “Ardipithecus ramidus: A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled” written by Anna Gibbons, talks about how scientist learn many things about human evolution through artifacts of ancestors, DNA and bones. All of this helps reveals different things about our past and how we came to be. This article briefly mentions Lucy and it mainly focuses on the discovery of ardipithecus ramidus.
Summary: In the article, Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research by Ed Yong, he approaches the issue of the rights to apes confronted by a pending Spanish law. The Great Ape Project (GAP), established in 1993, demands a basic set of morals and legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans. In June, GAP was able to persuade the Spanish Parliament’s environmental committee to approve a resolution supporting these goals. Fortunately, other countries also took steps to protect great apes from experimentation.
The article, “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?” by Ed Yong is trying to convince the reader to see a different side to primates. The Great Ape Project set legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutan. United Kingdom and New Zealand protect great apes from experimentation. For the Great Ape Project they are basically setting laws and higher standards for primates to me experimented on or held captive.
The article I have chosen was written by Helen Pilcher and is about evolution of creatures, especially for primates. However, until now, what do our very first primates were like still remain mysterious as we do not have sufficient information and evidences which are 60 million years ago. Yet, we still cannot deny that evolution occurs in creatures. No matter for humans, animals or plants, all of them will make changes because of their living habits and environment in order to survive. In this article, the author explains everything clearly about the primate evolution was taken around million years ago and ancestors are a small and nocturnal creature.
Neanderthals survived in Portugal long after modern humans entered Europe. Neanderthals made fireplaces and tools like hand axes and scrapers but as time went on their technology barely changed. Modern humans created different stone tools for different functions and they even made tools out of bone and ivory. Their tools were key to their success. Modern human made finely crafted ornaments and were the first species to do it.
When reading in chapter 9 about “Geology and Primate Origins”, I came to a decision to choose the relative dating techniques. It is dating techniques that establish the age of a fossil only in comparison to other materials found above and below it. Relative dating techniques use the principles of stratigraphy to tell us how old something is in relation to something else without applying an actual chronological age. An example of this technique is biostratigraphy (faunal correlation), biostratigraphy is a relative dating technique using the comparison of fossils from different stratigraphic sequences to estimate which layers are older and which are younger; employed in the Early Pleistocene deposits at Olduvai and other African sites. The prime
Climate change influenced nonhuman primate evolution in a variety of ways. Around 55 mya, a serious period of global warming occurred just as euprimates were beginning to appear. Our book discusses how this rapid temperature increase created tropical weather conditions all across the globe. As a result, new habits were created and there was "an adaptive radiation of modern-appearing primates, the euprimates" (Larsen 260). In other words, the high global temperatures paired with the humidity let to the spread of tropical forests.
The physical nature of a primate body as wells as its movement is a unique factor in the animal kingdom. There has been continuous change through locomotion and body configuration throughout each grades of primate evolution. In this essay I will be discussing the modifications in time as well as theories in each grade of primate. This research paper will try to elaborate on the evolutionary modifications and some of the theories that have been proposed for these changes throughout our and other primate evolution. With time primates development was due to environmental changes.
3-2-1 Assignment- Natural Selection and the Forces of Evolution 3 Main Points: 1. Natural Selection has three basic principles. One of those principles states that strong organisms will survive and the weak organisms will die. The second principle states that all organisms are different. The last principle states that inheritance comes from the parents’ genes, so 50% of those genes are from one parent and the other 50% is from the other parent.
Climate change influenced nonhuman primate evolution by forcing the evolution of species and creating new environments that allowed for primates to live. "A rapid temperature increase around 55 mya ... led to an expansion of evergreen tropical forests, the environment that made possible many mammalian groups, including primates." (pg. 260). As rapid temperature increase created new environments a rapid cooling in the beginning of the Oligocene limited the range of habitats greatly. Due to this reduction a majority of the primates during this time lived around the fayum region in northeast Africa.
In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate as to what caused the extinction of the Neanderthals around forty thousand years ago. Some researchers speculate that Neanderthals did not develop sufficient tools that would allow them to gather and hunt food efficiently while others speculate that early modern humans introduced deadly pathogens into Neanderthal populations which led to their extinction. However, researchers led by zooarchaeologist Jamie Hodgkins have found that frequent and lengthy glacial periods may have led to the extinction of the Neanderthals. They hypothesized that glacial periods may have reduced the quantity of prey that the Neanderthals hunted therefore they were unable to intake the required amount of food to survive.
The reason that Native Americans want to rebury the skeletal remains of their ancestors because they believe that their ancestral bones hold spiritual significance and power. The dead certainly deserve respect and shouldn’t be on public display in museums, universities, or institutions. Another reason is that they believe that they don’t need anthropologist to tell story about their past. Instead, they learn from oral tradition through their grandparents.
•There’s a strong resemblance between Clovis tools and weapons from ice age Europe. •The Solutrean laurel leaf is very similar to the Clovis point and seems to have been made using the same kind of technique. •Simple stone blades and points associated with a hearth were uncovered.
Deborah Swarthout Modern Man and Neanderthals WCCCD-Fall 2017 Modern Man and Neanderthals: Where did they go? It has long been thought that modern man evolved from the Neanderthals. Although we have many similarities, the most recent studies suggest that modern man actually co-existed alongside the Neanderthals and interbred with them to create the modern man we know today. Neanderthals or Neandertals (Homo Neanderthalensis) are considered to be our closest extinct human relatives.
Why is cheerleading should not be considered a club but a sport just as any other team. Cheerleading is not just a blonde bimbo waving a sign in there air. Cheerleading is defined as an encourager for teams a team motivator as well as a person with special crowd pumping skills. Cheerleading consist of strength, skills, and dedication. Dancing is considered a sport so why isn’t cheerleading?
