The animal I chose to do my report over for the prehistoric era is the Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus translates to meaning, “roof lizard or"plated lizard". Stegosauruses most likely lived during the late Jurassic period, about 156-140 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA, and in North America, western Europe, southern India, China, and southern Africa. The first Stegosaurus fossil was found in Colorado, USA, in 1876 by M. P. Felch.
Data and Observations: Create a data table to record your observations and measurements for each skull: Skull|Forehead|Face|Teeth|Foramen Magnum|Brain Cavity |Supraorbital Height (cm)| Pan troglodytes (modern chimpanzee)|Sloping|Flattened|Short/Dull|Rear|6.08cm|54.934cm| Homo sapiens(modern human)|Vertical|Flattened|Short/Dull|Front|9.01cm|67.703cm| Homo erectus(extinct hominid)|Vertical|Vertical|Short/Dull|Front|6.69cm|61.883cm| Australopithecus afarensis (extinct hominid)|Sloping |Vertical|Both/Both|Rear|5.92cm|53.209cm| Unidentified Fossil Skull |Sloping |Flattened|Short/Dull|Rear|6.60cm|51.364cm| Conclusion: I think that the unknown skull holds the most similarities to pan troglodytes. However, the unknown skull is also closely related to the Australopithecus afarensis skull. My hypothesis was right in that the unknown skull was very similar to the Australopithecus afarensis. However, I was a small bit off as the pan troglodytes ended up holding more similarities with the unknown skull. I think that the unknown skull was less
In vivid detail, Richard presents a meltdown of a man's body, known in the story as Charles Monet, which is invaded by a filovirus in a part of the African rain forests that also presents the world with HIV virus through the Kinshasa Highway. This becomes the first known index case and allows extreme amplification to occur as the virus spreads its bilions of replicated copies triggering a chain of lethal transmissions which could ultimately threaten the entire planet Earth. The first, attention-getting chapter, in The Hot Zone is based on a man named Charles Monet, a lonely Frenchmen, as I mentioned earlier. His mishaps begin when he enters Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon and proceeds onto an airplane. Charles starts puking black matter and experiences a tremendous amount of excruciating pain.
In his book “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, the author Jared Diamond tried to explain why history evolved differently for peoples from various geographical areas. Diamond believes that environmental factors, like plant and animal domestication, gave some civilizations benefits over others. In Chapter 1, Diamond discusses human evolution and migrations across the planet. He mentions that the history of humanity started approximately 7 million years ago, when a population of African apes diverged into three separate populations, one of which evolved into modern humans. For the first 5 or 6 million years after this separation, humans were confined to Africa.
Here Preston reflects on the origin and spread of AIDS. The Hot Zone highlights the impact of lethal viruses on human and animal population. The main viruses of the hot zone are Marburg and Ebola. These are considered to be ancient and their potential to destroy huge masses is really high, as more and more humans invade on the rain forest. There are well-establish cases in which Ebola and Marburg have been transmitted from caged monkeys to humans.
One of the classifications written in that book is the ‘primate’, which is mentioned to have three kinds of teeth, pendulous male genitalia, and etc; humans, are also included there. Humans, the creatures controlling the world, are together with apes in the same order. Further is even suspected, that humans are the peaks of ape’s evolution. It is said in a book written by Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species. Human has done a lot of things to change this earth to a better place: improving technologies, a great transportation system, education system, and others.
What makes humans so distinct? Introduction When brainstorming the term human one the first associations that might come to one’s mind are walking, talking, creativity, reasoning and war. A more sophisticated definition taken from the dictionary suggests that within a biological system the human is considered eutherian and belongs to the family of primates. The modern human, also Homo sapiens, is the only remaining species of the genus Homo. When compared with other animals it is especially the complexity of the human brain, capable of language, problem-solving, introspection and abstract reasoning, as well as the upright posture that stand out.
By the Upper Paleolithic (ending approximately 10,000 BCE), Neanderthal man had disappeared completely, and our ancestors were exhibiting fully modern behaviors such as making a wide range of even more sophisticated tools out of stone, bone, and ivory; hunting and fishing; and creating various forms of art such as figures and cave paintings. In the absence of a written language, early humans were still able to communicate and express themselves, and their spirituality, using pictures instead of words. They could record the locations of successful hunting grounds and invoke the animal spirits to aid them in their endeavors. Cave Paintings Cave paintings are the oldest form of Paleolithic art found to date, and can be found on almost every continent in the world. Until recently, the Chauvet cave paintings in France were believed to be the oldest, dating back to approximately 32,000 BCE; however, using carbon dating of the calcium deposits formed over the mineral-based paint, the cave paintings found in Spain’s are now believed to be over 40,000 years old [ (Than, 2012) ].
To better understand our history of evolution we will have to go back three point two million years ago where one of the first species of upright walking apes or hominids were discovered. Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarencis is well known for being part of the earliest species of hominids and was discovered containing forty-seven out of two hundred six bones in a full skeleton. During Lucy’s time the Earth’s plates were shifting causing the environment and climate to change. The rift valleys were forming and the rain forests were dying. In this new environment they found it more efficient to move about on two legs.
This era was also the time that dinosaurs were known to exist. The Cenozoic era was able to produce life such as mammals which were able to flourish and dominate the earth. Describe the processes that can either destroy the remains of an organism or cause them to become