Pliocene

The eager to please and endearingly tame animals that we know today as the domestic dog (MacHugh, Larson, and Orlando 2017) evolved from Pliocene variants of Canis Lupus, the wolf (Vilà et al. 1997). Late Pleistocene canines that fall morphologically somewhere between this wolf and the modern dog have been directly associated with early European human settlements as long ago as 40,000 BP (Germonpré et al. 2009). The close relationships that one can see today between humans and their canine companions

The formation of the Isthmus of Panama is seen today as one of the most transformative and remarkable events of the Cenozoic. The formation of the land bridge that connects North and South America and divides the Pacific and Atlantic oceans had profound affects on the climate, atmosphere and the biodiversity of both marine and terrestrial organisms of the area encompassing the Isthmus of Panama. It led to the Great American Biotic Interchange, which allowed for the invasion of inhabitants from

The latest discovery of a fossil skull in Kenya, more than three million years old, once again demonstrates the complex evolution of humankind. The following article examines the evidence and sees how it fits into the ideas of human origin formulated by Frederick Engels more than 100 years ago. "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed

Wonder, vastness, unsullied nature, and untouched beauty: all words that describe national parks across the planet. One such place, a series of islands about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, became officially recognized as an Ecuadorian National Park in 1959, and later a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 (Galapagos Islands Geology & Volcanoes, n.d.). None other than the Galapagos Islands themselves, the park is perhaps one of, if not the most captivating National Parks on the globe. When one

Christiansen, “The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.” Island Park Caldera Approximately 1.3 million years ago, this area would be subjected to another large eruption. This one however, was not nearly as large, or as powerful as the

Varying Patterns of Speciation Wallace’s line, located in the Malay-Archipelago, is one of the best known and most studied boundaries of zoogeography in the world. It is a transition zone between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and the islands of Bali and Lombork, which marks both the convergence and division of the diverse flora and fauna found in the Asian (Borneo, The Philippines, and Western Indonesia), and the Australian regions (Sulawesi, Eastern Indonesia, Australia, and New Guinea)

Every country has its own special features and facts, and we can learn more about these things from the people who belong to that country. Ukraine is located in the center of Europe. Arsenalnaya Metro Station, located in Kiev, is the deepest metro station in the world (105 meters). They also have the most visited McDonald`s in the world located near the train station. The station was built in 1960, very close to the House of Parliament and built for the political elite. Ukraine has much of historical

Our homo ancestors date back to about 2.5 million years ago. Classification of the genus Homo into species and subspecies remains poorly defined and subject to incomplete information, leading to difficulties in binomial naming, and the use of common names, such as "Neanderthal" and "Denisovan". With that being said, many people get a misunderstanding when discussing our homo ancestors. The biggest issue is knowing what a species are actually apart of the genus homo and who isn’t. Several species

Kenyatta University | INSTITUTUTE OF OPEN LEARNING | AHT 202 EARLY AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY | | | W. KENNEDY GITU, L.K. NGARI, W.S. NDIIRI | 1/4/2012 | | Table of Contents Definition of Terms 3 Fossils in Geological Context 5 The Earth in the Cenozoic 11 Origins of Primates 17 The Basis for Human Evolution 23 Origins of the Genus Homo 28 Origins of Modern Humans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 32 Behavior and Evolution of Early Hominines……………………………………………………………………………………………39

WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT SLOTHS Sloths (/ˈsloʊθ/ sloh-th, /ˈslɒθ/ slo-th)[2] are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species. They are part of the order Pilosa and are therefore related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Extant sloths are arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America, and are known for being slow-moving, and hence named