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The history of the world may trace back to a time long before humans ever walked the Earth. But that doesn’t mean there are not species who have made the trip through millions of years. To these 10 prehistoric animals, we humans are the new kids on the block. The first ancestors of this terrifying Goblin shark are believed to have existed as early as 125 million years ago. While larger species marched into extinction, the 11-foot Goblin shark has somehow lived on in many of the World’s oceans. While

to find multiple fossils. Berger and his team soon identified the multitude of fossils as a primitive human. This revolutionary discovery has added an ancestor to our evolutionary tree. This specie, named naledi, has been classified into the genus, Homo, which includes modern humans. However, due to lack of information, this specie is thought to have three possible ages of existence. One, an early divergence of the specie Australopithecus anamensis,

Considering that, we can't help but raise the question of where we all came from. Around the 1950s, it was widely believed among European scientists that Homo sapiens originated in Europe or Asia around 60,000 years ago. Based on more recent discoveries by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis while excavating in East Africa, we now believe that Homo sapiens may have first emerged in Africa many years earlier. Of course it is impossible to know exactly when the human species first emerged, but based on fossil

2. The hand ax had about 12 inches of cutting edge. Homo erectus (c. 3000,000 years ago) 3. Mousterian flake tools provided about 30 inches of cutting edge. Neanderthals and contemporaries(c. 100,000 years ago) Name-the Acheulian hand ax (named after the northern French town of Saint Acheul) 4. Upper Paleolithic blade production resulted in up to 30 feet of cutting edge. Homo sapiens (c. 30,000 years ago) 10. Know the names of the most important hominine fossil

After so many years of searching and excavating, my partners and I have discovered our first hominin fossil. After all the digging, cleaning, and cataloging of hominin discoveries is complete, we begin to start analyzing mysterious specimen #6. It looked a lot like a modern human but the skull features is slightly different and the molars is quite large. From what we have noticed at first sight, the incisors, canines and the premolars of the specimen are missing. Without analyzing and measuring the

CARTA April 29, 2016 lectures on human evolution The CARTA lectures on human evolution included lectures from Joshua Akey from the University of Washington, Kay Prüfer from the Mark Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Tony Capra from Vanderbilt University. Each of the speakers talked in some detail about the interbreeding of Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans. However, each speaker talked about a different aspect of the breeding. Akey spoke about Neandertal and Denisovan DNA

000 years ago. They are thought to have crossed the Bab el Mandeb straits over the Red Sea, but they are dated at least 20,000 years before the “Out of Africa” migration. Some species like the Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus might of lived here in Asia. These species are relatively close to Homo sapiens. Like elsewhere, they hunted bigger animals and were thought to have started cutting off and cooking the meat. While in Asia, there has been a proposal that these species had interbred, making

The Loris’s are typically founded in tropical Africa and Asia, which include the various species of Galago, or bushbaby, they are founded in Africa and now consider their own family, the Galagonidae (Stanford ). Additionally, includes the slender and slow Loris of Asia and the potto angwantibo of tropical Africa (Stanford). The Loris’s are slow moving, deliberate stalkers, capture small prey and resemble the primitive ancestor of modern haplorrhines (Standford). One remarkable characteristic of

Dentition Assignment Compare between the different aspects of mandibular permanent molars. By Ahmed ayman esmail 20150696 GroupB MANDIBULAR FIRST MOLAR 1- Five cusps, 2 buccal, 2 lingual, and one distal. 2- The buccal surface is bulky (lingually inclined) with two dev. grooves. 3- The crown is wider mesiodistally than buccolingually. 4- Occlusal outline is rectangular in shape. 5- Two well developed roots, one mesial, and one distal. MANDIBULAR SECOND MOLAR 1- Rounded square occlusal outline

from local populations. Consequently Neanderthals and Asian Homo erectus did contribute to the modern human genotype. This model also shows that after the dispersal there was some gene flow between geographically separated populations which prevented speciation, that all living humans derive from Homo erectus which left Africa 2 million years ago, that natural selection is responsible for regional variants and that the emergence of Homo sapiens was a phenomenon which occurred everywhere that humans lived