The Evolution Of The Human Species

Response- Humans started agriculture in the Neolithic time. When humans found out that they can plant they started to evolve. More ideas started to grow and finally humans figured out that they can make technology people switched from farming to making things and trading for new stuff .which caused the change in human lifestyles.

Many factors contribute to civilization, one being job specialization. Job specialization is a job given based on strengths. Many people abandoned farming completely to make tools and prepare the produce. This not only let people strive in what they do best at, but also provided other people with instruments they needed to execute their personal jobs. Additionally, this instituted trade. It states in Document 2, “they gave them [tools and other goods] food in exchange.” This exchange, hence, started trade. They can vend what they make for food and visa-versa. Document 4 explains, how they “all work together and help one another.” To do this, individuals take on a specific task and participate in a series of exchanges to make the civilization work smoothly. During the Paleolithic Era, they could not trade, merely because they did not have a civilization. Everyone hunted and there was nothing to trade or job to do because it wasn’t

The evolution of civilization happened from many reason. Early humans living near rivers were available to water mostly. The storage of grains helped the first civilization. The surplus demand for wine and beer played a role in the evolution of civilization.

This led to a growth in population because now there was no restriction on how often you could have children, just how many you can care for. This led to a greater population density which ultimately started civilizations.

Humans have always had to find a way to survive in the changing environment of our world. Humans have had to find many ways to adapt and find different practices to feed their communities. Humans were able to keep their communities alive due to their ways of hunting and gathering. Gender played a role in this way of finding food source. Men were set to be the hunters and the women were responsible for gathering any crops they could find. There was a transition that occurred and a new way of cultivating food emerged. Agriculture became a way of survival for human beings. Agriculture played an intricate role in providing a food source and it had a major impact on the Neolithic societies in the Near East. It provided a new way for society to be permanently transformed from what they once were, hunter gatherers to becoming something more stable and stronger.

Early humans were stuck in their “ecological niche” and did not have the same evolutionary changes that humans now face in present time (Ridley, 3). Additionally, Ridley argues that cultural evolution explains the earlier extended static periods because the cultural evolution process was “to replicate, mutate, compete, select, and accumulate” (Ridley, 5). The culmination of the early human culture allowed for progress to occur, eventually allowing models like REM to fuel innovation. Specifically, humans began to understand the role of specialization in order for society to become more productive and resourceful.

Humans are the most unique species on Earth. We have gained the ability to things never accomplished before on Earth. We can control our environment, domesticate other species, and more importantly, form complex connections and societies with one another. However, it is widely debated about how we evolved from simple ape-like foragers to the meat-eating, community-building species we are today. In this paper, we will be looking at three authors: Richard Wrangham, Pat Shipman, and Frans de Wall. Each of which approach this question from different directions.

During the existence of human many things have changed and happened, for example the Neolithic revolution. During the Neolithic revolution a lot has changed and happened, like the food production. The food production changed a lot of things like politically, socially, and economically. When agriculture was first introduced it changed everything. Instead of being nomads people stayed and that built economies.

As humans migrated north into Northern Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Europe, new environments led to advancements in technology, changes in body structure, and language development. These technological feats, evolutionary structure changes, and breakthroughs in communication, are necessary for making the human race what it is today.

Unlike Paleolithic time's, man could have more leisure time to spend. This led him to broaden the society he was living in and led to increased populations in the Neolithic Age. The more people there were the more discovery man made during this time. The invention of agriculture led to the settled life. Since man no longer needed to roam, all they had to do was put a seed in the ground and watch it grow. Tool and weaponry became more advanced, and pottery and the potters wheel was invented.

Mesolithic period marked the beginning of Holocene inducing simultaneous climatic changes which led to proliferation of flora and fauna. This inherently led to the increased availability of resources to man, hence creating a change in the economy. Substantial changes in lifestyle were observed as a form of survival strategy which primarily promoted localization, halting locomotion. The progression of evolutionary changes in anatomy and physiology equipped man to enjoy privileges like full hand and thumb grip, larger cranial capacity that inherently influenced other inter dependent bodily functions. His emotions cultivated social cohesions forming personal and societal bonds.

Humans have existed on Earth for approximately 3.4 million years. The oldest known human ancestor is "Lucy," an Australopithecus. Over this extensive period of time, humans have evolved significantly. Homo Sapiens have grown from 3 to almost 6 feet (average), lost most of the body hair, became leaner and adapted to walking. Humans have come a long way, from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, from living in trees to living in cities. Slowly, through hundreds of thousands of years, we mutated over and over again, natural selection ensuring that no destructive mutations continue. From the slow evolution, four distinctive species emerged and died out, each giving way to its ' descendant: Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalesis, and Homo sapiens Sapiens.

The most significant development during the Neolithic Era was the development of agriculture. This occurred approximately 10,000 years ago in human history. Humans began to domesticate animals and engage in selective breeding. With the end of the Ice Age, new plants became available and were cultivated to provide a more stable food source than hunting and gathering. Humans began to domesticate plants as well. "People had long observed wild plants as they gathered

Human evolution according to research started over 6 million years ago. The outcome of the evolution process is the current human beings. Scientific studies have revealed over the years a remarkable affinity between the chimpanzees/Apes and human beings. Even though this reality is not a definitive prove that human beings evolved from apes, it does show that the human beings are in one way or another related to other primates. Scientists suppose that the humans and the primates shared a common ancestor. The subject of what makes humans what they are and their origin has been the exclusive purpose leading to many scientific studies globally (Coolidge & Wynn, 2011). Studies believe that Africa was the origin of evolution millions of years ago. Fossil remains have been discovered in different parts of Africa as well as other regions of the world. Different hominins have been discovered around the world in the last 1 million years. Thus, the different discoveries have led to comparisons between the various species of hominins to clarify on their similarities as well as differences. This essay seeks to explain whether they were distinctively different species or regional versions of the same species.

Throughout the millions of years that humans have existed in the world, we have continued to grow, evolve, and change with the times. As our towns grew to cities and our huts grew to houses and buildings we continued to grow and adapt to these changes to live a better life. The two main ways that adapt is through biological adaption and cultural adaption. While both of these help us grow, they do so in very different ways. Biological adaption is the ways in which for example we adapt to harsher weather conditions. For example, shivering when we get cold or sweating when we are hot are examples of biological adaption (Kottak). Cultural adaption is when people create culture to further society. Creating tools and technology in order to further propel society as