Homo ergaster

Homo ergaster dates back to about 1.9 to 0.6 million years ago, and were one of our earliest ancestors to share similar physical characteristics and proportions with modern humans. It is strongly proven that H. ergaster was physically evolved to be efficient long distance runners. This was evident through their diet, behaviour, body proportions, as well as physical adaptations that set them apart them from their predecessors. All of these evolutionary traits occurred in relation to one another in

Brains are the reason humans are who they are. They control all decisions, actions, and emotions, with both large and small impacts. Brains are responsible for everything humans accomplish. Brains cause madness, genius, insanity, calamities, wars, opinions, oppression, society, and culture. They give humans their humanity. In Thresholds as early as five, brains developed and began to adapt and changed to help their host organism survive. They created order within the body for better functioning.

Site above Johannesburg, South Africa. (Wilford) It was here that the now extinct Hominin species, Homo Naledi, was found. This discovery gave scientists great insight to the beginnings of the Genus Homo. The Homo Naledi is believed to be the link between Genus Homo and Genus Australopithecus. This site is regarded as an ancient, and possibly the first, burial grounds of the entirety of the Genus Homo. With the knowledge is is thought that our understanding of our ancestors is warped. Scientists used

My name is Sean Keefe and I am an intern for the recently deceased Harvey Manfrenjensenjen. While sorting through samples I came across 6 hominin skulls that lack analysis. In this project, I am going to explain and talk about the six skulls in the Anthropology Department that I found. To do this, I will use what I have learned in lecture, as well as numerous outside sources to describe three defining characteristics for each skull. Additionally, I will provide necessary information about each

In 1983, the fossil remains of Georgiacetus vogtlensis was unearthed at a nuclear power plant facility in Burke County, Georgia. The discovery of G. vogtlensis was phenomenal because it directly linked protocetid ancestors to modern day whales. G. vogtlensis lived 40.5 million years ago in the southeastern region of the united states during the Bartonian age of the Eocene epoch. Cranial measurements recorded a skull 12in wide, 24in deep and 30in long, suggesting a total body length of 10 to 20ft

These fossils have been classified as part of a new species of hominin, called Homo naledi because “naledi” means “star” in the Sotho language of the region (Gibbons 2015). It also refers to the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave (Berger et. al. 2015: 3). This makes Homo naledi the best known fossil species in the human genus (Bower 2016). Homo naledi was originally believed to have evolved near the root of the Homo lineage, about 2.5 to 2.8 billion years ago. More recently, a group of scientists

conclusions about human history Non-historical evidence is necessary in understanding human evolution since the earliest stages of our history occurred before writing existed. While later civilizations could record their own history, the account of early Homo sapiens is incomplete without information from before written language. Subsequently, there are no explicit records detailing how humans expanded from one continent to all seven, causing historians to need alternate sources of information in order

Introduction this essay supports that due to the anatomical and physiological characteristics between Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba are more similar than they are different they should be placed in the same genus. Purpose of genus The purpose of taxa are to classify organisms with similar characteristics in the same group. The first taxa (kingdom) is the broadest group and the most specific is the taxa species. The genus name narrows the range of organisms to those whose specific traits

The organism changed over time because the early ancestor of the horse was known as the Hyracotherium. It was about the same size as a fox and had a short neck, short snout, short legs, arched back, and a long tail. It ate fruits and behavior more like a deer. It looked nothing like modern horses. Than the Hyracotherium evolved into the Mesohippus celer. Around 40 million years ago. This animal was a little bigger, and it didn’t look like a fox anymore. The back wasn’t as arched, the legs and neck

A new species of human called "Homo naledi," was discovered by Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. What he didn’t know is that this discovery could change the progress of human evolution. After examining the fossils, Berger and his team came up with a new theory. They proposed that “the fossils -- consisting of infants, children, adults and elderly individuals -- were found, in a previously isolated chamber within the cave… the chamber, located