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    like‚ what set us toward the path of Humanity. This documentary Homo sapiens‚ the Birth of Humanities gives us the answer to this question and many others. However‚ not only that‚ but also provide us with many facts that we have never known before. The film produces Rift Valley in Africa 2 million years ago‚ where our first ancestors were found. The cycle/birth of humans began way before that around 1‚300‚000 years when the Homo erectus species really similar to humans. Many characteristics‚ and physical

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    The Neanderthals are an extinct species in the homo genus. They lived during the Pleistocene age. The Neanderthals are believed to have lived in most of Eurasia from 120‚000 years ago to about 30‚000 years ago. They were a more advanced pre-modern variation of the homo genus. The reason they are viewed as more advanced than other Pre-modern hominids is because they made tools‚ buried their dead they also lived to around forty years of age. This is quite long compared to their contemporaries. Their

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    researchers to confirm that Homo rudolfensis is a distinct species. The first Homo rudolfensis skull was found in northern Kenya in 1972. The newly discovered fossil face is flat‚ as in the original skull. The partial jawbones look similar to the skull found in 1972 but enlarge the known variation in the skull and teeth of Homo rudolfensis. Along with fossils of Homo habilis and Homo erectus‚ these new specimens support the existence of multiple species of Homo in eastern Africa between about

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    1. Cite and explain 4 important events that led to homosapiens/ sapiens from common ancestors. Important events that led to homo sapiens from common ancestors are PHYSICAL CHANGES which are considered as CRUCIAL CHANGES for the human evolution. First‚ over 45Million years ago ancestors stood up with their two legs. Using this ability to walk around and be distinct with the other animals like chimps. Second‚ it’s over 3Million years ago that ancestors became clever with their hands. This was the

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    ANTH 304: Prehistoric Europe Exam 1 Study Guide Peopling of Europe: Long vs short chronology Long chronology proponents argue for people (Homo erectus or heidelbergensis) in Europe before 1 million years ago. Short chronology proponents argue for colonization after 730‚000 years ago. This corresponds to the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary‚ when the Earth’s magnetic poles switched from a Reversed to Normal polarity. Sites such as Orce and Sima del Elefante in Spain are equivocal evidence

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    dated 195 thousand years old. No other remains remotely close to this age have been discovered anywhere else on the planet. Evidence suggests that the first human like species evolved around 400 million years ago from apes eventually evolving into homo sapiens‚ or more commonly know today as modern humans. The human foot is designed to provide spring when we run. It is made up of ligaments and tendons‚ they support the arch in the foot. Every time we run‚ the foot hits the ground and springs

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    first evolved in Africa and then migrated out to Asia and Europe‚ displacing the archaic Homo sapiens already habituated there. In contrast‚ the Multiregional Continuity hypothesis explains that evolution of modern humans occurred regionally and without replacement‚ meaning that each continent’s archaic H. sapiens gave rise to their own modern H. sapiens individually. There have been several discoveries of early homo. These discoveries begin with an individual found in the Kabwe lead mine in Zambia.

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    The African Origins of Humanity We are originally children of Africa with no Neanderthals or island-dwelling "hobbits" in our family tree. The first humans migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago. Then they entered Europe some time later‚ between 1.5 million and 1 million years. The modern humans’ species populated many parts of the world much later. For example‚ the first people came to Australia probably in the past 60‚000 years and to the Americas

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    The Role Of Homo-eroticism In The Picture Of Dorian Gray The treatment of homo-eroticism as a theme in The Picture of Dorian Gray is a part of the aesthetic backdrop that structures and also helps to color the novel. It is also used as a way to challenge the hypocritically-prudish surface of the Victorian society. However‚ there is much more artistic and historical value to the use of this theme‚ such as the motif of aestheticism. The idea of homo-eroticism being a part of the Greek culture‚ and

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    Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") is the scientific name for the human species. Homo is the human genus‚ which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid; H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo. Modern humans are the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens‚ differentiated from their direct ancestor‚ Homo sapiens idaltu. Subspecies of H. sapiens include Homo sapiens idaltu and the only extant subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens. Some sources show Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

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