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There are many different views about refugees in Australian society, where illegal boat people and over flowing detention centres are a controversial problem today. Go Back To Where You Came From is a documentary directed by Ivan O’Mahoney about a social experiment that challenges the dominant views of six Australians about refugees and asylum seekers. These six Australians are taken on a 25 day journey where they are placed into the troubled “worlds” of refugees. For a few of the Australians it is their first time overseas but, for all of them it is the most challenging and confronting experience of their lives. This essay will discuss

In an instant life was created. But the type of life that was created differs depending on who is asked. Scientists would claim that single-celled organisms were the first to be created, and only by evolution and survival of the fittest did humans come to be. Religious people would refute that claim and state that humans were created in the image and likeness of god and all other animals came separately and not by chance. This argument has plagued the world since Charles Darwin released his theory in 1859. It came to a point in Dayton, Tennessee with the Scopes Trial, also known as the “Monkey Trial”. This eleven-day trial pitted faith against reason and left a legacy of conflict in schoolrooms and legislature across America.

According to Loseke in Thinking About Social Problems (2003), a social problem is something that is wrong and widespread, but it can also be changed. A person that calls attention to a social problem and tries to make an audience realize the problem is a claims-maker. A claims-makers make a claim, “any visual, verbal, or behavioral statement that seeks to persuade audience members to define a condition as a social problem”. (Loseke, 2003, pg. ) The main goal of a claims-maker is not only to get the audience to realize that a social problem exists, but also to get the audience to take action against that problem. The purpose of this paper is to depict why the claims-making process is important for understanding social problems. This paper argues that Alper and Jhally from the

Homo floresiensis (“Man of Flores”) is the name for a possible new species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times (www.en.wikipedia.org). Anthropologists Peter Brown of University of New England in South Wales, Australia, Michael Morwood and their colleagues have argued that a variety of features, both primitive and derived, identified LB1 (the first skeleton found in cave of Liang Bua) is that of a new species of hominin, Homo floresiensis. The first specimens were discovered by Thomas Sutikna and colleagues from the Indonesian Research Centre for Archaeology in Liang Bua cave of Flores, Indonesia in September of 2003

The importance of the research being done based on this find is explained within this same article in a quote from Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, London saying, “A find like this does make us question the trees people have built up of human evolution”(Noble, 2002). Not only is finding this skull phenomenal, but the implications it holds are tremendous. The idea that one fossil such as this can change the way we have thought about human evolution is a huge deal that deserves much research and even much speculation and dispute.

However, there are scientific research and evidence that prove otherwise. For example, in the article from Ivy Rose we have many similar anatomical physical features such as “opposable thumbs, hands and feet that can grasp, and 32 teeth”. (Ivy Rose) Two articles that help explain human evolution and our relation with modern primates such as monkeys and apes are: “Human vs. Primates from Ivyroses.com and “Ape to Human Evolution Eugene M. McCarthy, PHD. These two articles explain there is a significant similarity of how fossils record, physical features, and even some behavioral traits between humans and other modern primates that helps prove that we are related. Another argument that the author makes is that there is a “missing link” When it comes to the speciation of human beings. When in fact there are actually fossil records of these so called “missing links,” that link to human evolution for example according to National Geographic’s and live science .com “Lucy the Australopithecus” and “Homo Habilis, and etc. are all follsil evidence that humans have been evolving for many years forming new traits that make up today’s modern

When humans first started to ponder how the first people got here they only had one theory. Then with findings in Cactus hill Virginia that theory along with the scientific community got flipped on its head.

     Most of their evidence comes from the fossilized bones of Neanderthals and Cro- Magnons, or modern man’s ancestors (Shreeve, 150).

timeline of modern humans, Homo sapiens, and how long they have been in existence. According to mainstream science, popular belief holds that the history of our species is confirmed to be confined to the past 12,000 years. This figure is a culmination based on what we know about evolution and what we have been able to gather through fossil analyzation and dating of artifacts as well as human remains. Although the subject of human antiquity, also referred to as human origins, does not prompt a great deal of debate there may actually be the need for some. A reexamination of the notion that humans have only existed a mere 12,000 years should be considered as there may be evidence to support a much greater antiquity of modern human life. Alternative researchers have offered up evidence of “forbidden archeology” that contradicts the mainstream beliefs of human origins, however these discoveries seem to have been swept under the scientific rug.

“How old is the oldest human fossil?,” If you had said about 700,000 years, you would probably have been right until just recently that is, “The September 1998 issue of Discover magazine”, reports that Ernesto Abbate, a geology professor from Florence, Italy, has just discovered the fossilized skull and teeth of a humanlike creature who might have lived, as far back as, one million years ago. Calling this creature Buia Man after the city in northeastern Africa where the remains were found. Prof. Abbate thinks he has discovered the earliest fossil that displays physical features associated with Homo sapiens, the species to which modern humans belong. Moreover, Buia Man says, Prof. Abbate also shows physical

The fossil record is the history of life, as documented by fossils. The fossil record can show us so many things, from the history of how homosapiens evolved into what were are today to how whales were once furry, four-legged land animals. The fact that we share roughly 50 percent of our DNA with a banana is pretty astounding, but if you were to follow our family tree back far enough, you would find that every single one of us, human or not, share a common ancestor. Yes, it is pretty hard to believe but it makes sense if you really think about it. If we have 98% of the same genes as chimpanzees, 80% of similar genes as cows, and 60% of similar genes as a fruit

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In a world that relies on an explanation for every moment of existence, the one unanswered question is the origin of life. Many myths and questions have risen from this controversial subject. Within different time periods and cultures lie variations of creation myths that all shed light on ideals of how the human race originated. The African Creation Tale and the Native American Creation Tale, “How Man Was Created,” are both myths that explain the origin of man based on the beliefs of their culture.

Throughout history, many people have contributed to the understanding of human origin and evolution. One such contributor was the paleontologist and anthropologist, Louis Leakey. He studied fossils in East Africa and made many conclusions about the origin of humanity based on the fossils he found there. Although Leakey’s theories were controversial at the time, he is now known as a huge contributor to knowledge about the rise of the humanity.

This documentary explain how human where created. This is an amazing documentary about the evolution of are ancestor. I learn of what makes us human, Are Ancestor comes from Africa and that they spread around the world and develop their own culture. The first discovery of fossil was a knee joint, then they found a complete fossil she was name Lucy. She was found 3.2 million years ago, she was an ape that stud up 4 feet tall and walk like a men had longer arm to survive. Apes had 98% of the same genes and there species adapt to new environment. I was impress about the Australian cave the ways are ancestor communicate within each other. The painting of the female figure 20,000 years ago and how they communicated that the European where coming