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    From my understanding of how we human sapiens are living now, it is a lot easier than what it used to be 70 thousand years ago. I am not saying that it is easy for us but as a nation that is more civilized than how it was back then. We don’t have to worry much about food due to it being ready for us at the store that we can just go pick up but in some cases, some people can't afford to buy food and ended up in poverty. There are goods and bads about how we modern homo sapiens are living now and same

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    Nadia Khan 1. What are phytoplankton? In which ocean zone will you expect to find them? Why are they important? (10 points) Plankton are microscopic organisms that get their name for the fact that they passively float in the waters that they habitat. Plankton means “drifter in Greek.” Now phytoplankton are a special type of plankton that are very small, plant-like organisms as they consist of eukaryote such as algae and Protista as well as prokaryote such as cyanobacteria. Diatoms, with their hard

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    As fossil evidence has shown, we see that all pre-human forms, from Proconsul to Australopithecines, have resided in parts of Africa. We don’t see any movement out of Africa until the appearance of the Homo erectus fossils. These fossils have been found not only in Africa, but have also been found in parts of Europe and Asia. This is when scientists begin to disagree on how these pre-modern humans spread from Africa to other continents. Some scientists believe in the hypothesis known as the Multiregional

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    Part 1 - Notes Michael Lehmann Discovering Prehistory - Chapter 1 The author Joy McCorriston, was a student at the Institute of Archaeology in London and found out about the chance to visit the Lascaux cave from a radio show contest. Although she didn’t “win” she was lucky enough to join the tour. She listens to stories from Monsieur Jaceues Marshal, a discoverer of the cave and the cave’s guard as she gets to tour the cave. Lascaux Cave’s discovery had come about because four local

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    Firstly, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Inheritors are related because the societies in these novels control people through despair. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Party constantly manipulates the minds of its citizens and rewrites historical records in order to keep them inferior and to obey the government’s commands. However, even if an individual revolts against the Party, they will be tortured to the extent where they will relinquish all of their rebelliousness and become loyal once again. For instance

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    the same breath, mostly through the spread of disease. Many early humans came into contact with the Neanderthals, which then caused the Neanderthals to die off. The reasons for this are still rather uncertain, but at the very least, humans seemed to have outcompeted the Neanderthals, for the most part, while still managing to spread a small amount of their genes into the human gene pool (Neanderthals: Facts About Our Extinct Human Relatives, 2016). The drive to explore, to know, to learn and a curious

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    study in other parts of the world. Markers in Neanderthal genomes A third group from Capra and Vanderbilt studied databases of the modern human genome to look for DNA markers which suggest differently regulated genes in various body tissues. The team of Laura Colbran, a human geneticist, searched for the markers in two Neanderthal genomes. They discovered that the genes linked with neurological development were differently regulated in the Neanderthal brain. Treating schizophrenia Meanwhile, Daily

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    reconstruction, it shows a man and a woman after mating. To me, it looked as if they were sleeping, but naked which I would think is normal is that time. It shows a “bed” which is animal skin on the ground and also used as blankets. They are part of the Neanderthal which the artist made them to look very human like as well as light skinned and no hair on their bodies. Maybe she interpreted it from the many

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    The study of evolutionary genomics demands answers to the most essential questions of our existence, such as where we come from, how we got here and when and why we became who we are as a species, and as individuals today (Stoneking 1994; Kocher et al. 1989). Questions that can only be answered by the dissection, analysis and contemplation of the very material that makes us who we are, our genetic blueprint - DNA. The key to the study of human evolution and migration has been found in the sequencing

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    One The word “character” is a noun from the mid-14th century defined as a “symbol marked or branded on the body.” In the mid-15th century it was defined as an “engraved marked” and a “symbol or imprint on the soul.” By 1640, the word had evolved to mean “sum of qualities that define a person.”1 Today, Congress and the President of the United States, along with the HBVCI (Hahm-Beller Values Choice Inventory), comprised a list of six values of character that are compared in the table below. United

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