Essays on Human Evolution

In this Article, Author starts his discussion with discourses about Background of Hunter-Gatherer Complexity. I summarize first section’s important sentences in the below; Archaeologists separate hunter-gatherers into two camps ‘simple’ and ‘complex.’ Recently there has been heated discourse as to the ‘nature’ of complex hunter-gatherer…

The Neolithic era featured a major shirt in human techniques of getting food and resources. The most major of these changes can be seen in stationary farming, which was a major development of the Neolithic era. Through this change in human technique however, there was…

“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money” – Plains Sioux Native American Society alludes to set of people; who live respectively in…

Evolution is at work since the beginning of life, all of the organisms which we see around us living are the result of natural selection, environmental stress allows the survival of the fittest and causes evolution. Generally Eukaryotic organisms function physiologically on three most important…

Bowlby’s theory is an evolutionary theory because he believes attachment is a behavioral system that has evolved because of its survival and reproductive value. Caregiving is adaptive because species have adapted over many years to enhance survival of the offspring so they can later reproduce….

Culture and nature represents human evolution in a way that defines what is a human? What make human? What makes humans different from other animal especially African apes and monkeys? The human brains had developed into bigger brains and have been able to learn more…

What is homo sapiens and how did archaeologist and many other professionals understand human’s evolution? Homo Sapiens is the species that we human beings belong in this world. Also, homo sapiens is a scientist name for humans. They evolved in Africa two million years ago…

The Evolution of Humans The definition of evolution according to “Merriam-Webster”, is “descent with modification from preexisting species : cumulative inherited change in a population of organisms through time leading to the appearance of new forms: the process by which new species or populations of…

Archaeological Hominin and Hominid Discoveries of the Last Century Throughout the last century, there have been many fascinating and thought-inducing hominin and hominid discoveries. The difference in being hominin and hominid seems small, but it is in fact very important. Hominids are a group consisting…

Evolution involving Homo sapiens (humans) has become a topic that has been frequently analyzed. It has also been frequently compared to evolutions of other mammals when discussing how the various changes impacts one’s life. Encephalization in particular has been discussed when examining the changes the…

Are Humans Still Evolving? Humans have definitely changed over the course of many years. We changed in how we think and act, and also in our physical appearance as well. However, the question that everyone has contrasting opinions on is “Are humans still evolving?” In…

Humans have evolved tremendously from us being cavemen to us now being intelligent.We had the stone age where the only tools were made out of stone,and where Lucy was alive to show us how our family tree works .Then the metal age where we learned…

Over the long years during evolution the human brain has grown and evolved in a rather interesting way; by adding to parts that are already there. In other words, the human brain has evolved by basically joining interdependent neural coatings on top of the other…

Claim Human technology has caused evolution of the human species to stall Research question To what extent has advancements in medicine helped preserve negative genetic mutations in the human gene pool? Rationale In “On the Origin of Species”, Darwin proposed that changes occur in the…

Throughout the last century, scientists have made major improvements and breakthrough in the understanding of the lives and changes that took place among our ancient ancestors. One of the things that can be observed is that only about 1.6% of our DNA is actually different…