Australopithecus

can have a large effect on how long a forest fire lasts, the direction, and how intense it can

Fossils let us know how species have changed crosswise over long stretches of the Earth's history. For example, in 1998, researchers discovered a fossil demonstrating a creature at the move from ocean animal to land animal. This tetrapod had a hand-like balance, affirming a forecast of transformative science. In spite of the fact that the fossil record does exclude each plant and creature that ever lived, it gives considerable proof to the normal plunge of life by means of advancement. The fossil record is a noteworthy present for the investigation of nature. That is the reason the greater part of the proof for advancement originates from the fossil record. Fossils demonstrate how much, or how little, living beings have changed after some time. One of the issues with the fossil record is that it contains holes. Not all life forms fossilize well, and there will be numerous fossils that have been wrecked by the developments of the Earth, or just not yet been

Fossils grant us opportunity of understanding about species which no longer exist on Earth- that are extinct. The prehistoric remains inform us about plants and

Darwin once hypothesized that humans evolved from an ape like ancestor and that those ancestors most likely originated in Africa since the majority of the great apes lived there. Unfortunately, Darwin’s hypothesis was ignored for reasons such as people (e.g. Europeans) not liking of having African ancestors—not to mention the lack of evidence did not help in supporting such hypothesis. Thus, finding the missing link between apes and humans was of great important—it still is. Thankfully, through extensive research many scientists have been able to determine a clade called Hominin [7]. This clade contains humans as well as their most closely related relatives.

Three recent fossil findings believed to be hominin ancestors have been selected for description and any controversy surrounding their discovery will be discussed. The three fossils are: Homo floresiensis, Homo rudolfensis and Kenyanthropus

When the boys first arrive on the desolate island they begin to use the fire as a reminder of home and warmth. The first time the boys manage to “safely alight” (97) the fire they made it for the thought of warmth and the starting need to be rescued. Later on after getting their bearings on the remote island, the boys begin to create order and law in the tribe. One of the laws is that someone has to watch the signal fire on top of the mountain at every time. Eric and Sam were lighting the fire which caused “warmth to [radiate] and beat pleasantly on them”(97) showing that the fire was used for comfort and no rescue. Also the boys, specifically Ralph and Piggy, thought that “there was something good about the fire”(find) besides rescue. Both boy considered the fire as a good thing they could use with control. Quickly the fire changes into something else.

Based on a toe bone discovered among other fossils belonging to this new hominid, it has been determined by Haile-Selassie that “Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba almost certainly walked on two legs when on the ground. The creature’s teeth share more characteristics with all later discovered hominids than with the teeth of all fossils and modern apes” (Rickman 2001). Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba ate a smaller amount of fruit and more soft leaves than prior chimpanzees, according to the fossils of the hominids relatively large back teeth and narrow front teeth.

Fire is the most important key to survival because you use it to cook, keep your body warm, scare away predators, and purify water. You will not live in the wilderness without it. The boys make fire in the second chapter, but it catches the forest on fire. They use Piggy’s glasses to create

--Even though fossilization is quite unusual for many species including hominids archaeologists have assembled enough evidence to paint a fairly accurate picture not only of our ancestors, but the ancestors of species of humans who

However, what is not so obvious to the casual observer is that the macro-evolutionary view is not supported by testable scientific evidence. The existence of a variety of hominid species in the fossil record does not provide any evidence that these species are so-called “transitional species” between the primate and human. Furthermore, the fact that this view is widely held among contemporarily educated people only provides evidence that it is widely taught in educational forums. It provides no evidence of its validity.

Members of the Australopithecus family had several characteristics that were distinctively unique. Australopithecus fossils exhibited both apelike and human characteristics. This combination of traits led researchers to the assumption that Australopithecus must be an ancestor of the genus Homo, since they share many traits this led to their classification as hominids.

Due to the constant battle between similarities and differences between different species of the genus Homo, one major concept to retain from this article is the fact that ‘later’ hominins are not just simply scaled-down versions of older hominins. Evolution and adaptation is not a simple straight, perfect line that can be simply traced. It is a complex, non-linear progression, full of error and imperfect

the hypothesis that modern humans gradually evolved throughout the Old World as a single species in different regions.

In fact, I chose to write about this article because I was intrigued at the thought that even with our advanced technology and wide-ranged knowledge, there are still many things in our world that remain a mystery to us. Paleontologists seem to have such an overall exciting and adventure-filled time when they carry out their duties – discovering ancient items and places, and then examining them to uncover their untold histories. In this article, the researchers discovered an unknown species with human-like features and it just blows my mind that they could’ve uncovered these artifacts years earlier or later on. In addition to that, I think it’s pretty cool to find a new species to add in the genus Homo and if it is true that it is in fact part of that group, it would essentially be as if the whole Homo sapien species found out about a long lost, unknown

○ In 2013, spelunkers, or cave explorers, discovered fossils in a deep underground cave in the Dinaledi Chamber of South Africa's