ooooohhhhh! the video was so nice. amazing. I've learned a lot from it. dakoa sa mga footprints ui. hahaha. thanks sir for sharing this video. amzing jud kaayo siya.Originally Posted by regnauld
Darwin's The Origin of Species suggested that humans were descended from African apes. However, no fossils of our ancestors were discovered in Africa until 1924, when Raymond Dart dug up the "Taung child" - a 3-million to 4 million-year-old Australopithecine.
Over the last century, many spectacular discoveries have shed light on the history of the human family. Somewhere between 12 and 19 different species of early humans are recognised, though palaeoanthropologists bitterly dispute how they are related. Famous fossils include the remarkably complete "Lucy", dug up in Ethiopia in 1974, and the astonishing "hobbit" species, Homo floresiensis, found on an Indonesian island in 2004.
Walking tall
Humans are really just a peculiar African ape - we share about 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. Genetics and fossil evidence hint that we last shared a common ancestor 7 to 10 million years ago - even if we continued hybridising long after.
At around 6 million years ago, the first apes to walk on two legs appear in the fossil records. Despite the fact that many of these Australopithecines and other early humans were no bigger than chimps and had similar-sized brains, the shift to bipedalism was highly significant. Aside from our large brain, bipedalism is perhaps the most important difference between humans and apes, as it freed our hands to use tools.
Bipedalism may have evolved when drier conditions shrank dense African forests. It must have allowed our ancestors to spot predators from further away, reach hanging fruit from the ground, and reduce exposure to sunlight. Evidence that Australopithecines walked upright includes analysis of the shape of their bones and fossilised footprints.
One famous member of the species Australopithecus afarensis is the remarkably complete fossil found by palaeaoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974. The 3.2-million-year-old fossil was named Lucy, after the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
She stood around 1.1 metres (3.5 feet) tall and although she walked on two legs, she probably had a less graceful gait than us, since she walked with them bent.
Scientist's have modelled her gait using computers. Their characteristic long arms and curved fingers suggest that at least some Australopithecines were still good climbers.
Hundreds of other fossils of Australopithecus afarensis have now also been discovered. Other related early human species include Australopithecus africanus - such as the Taung child - 3.5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops, 5.8-million to 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus, 5.8-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis and 6 million year old Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
Tooled up
Australopithecines are thought to be the ancestors of Homo, the group to which our own species, Homo sapiens, belongs.
However, Australopithecines may also have given rise to another branch of hominid evolution - the vegetarian Paranthropus species. Around 2.7 million years ago, species such as Paranthropus bosei in east Africa evolved to take advantage of the dry grasslands. This included the development of enormous jaws and chewing muscles for grinding up tough roots and tubers.
By 2.4 million years ago, Homo habilis had appeared - the first recognisably human-like hominid to appear in the fossil record - which lived alongside P. bosei. Their bodies were around two-thirds the size of ours, but their brains were significantly larger than Australopithecines with a volume of about 600 cubic centimetres.
H. habilis had much smaller teeth and jaws than Paranthropus and was probably the first human to eat large quantities of meat. This meaty diet, acquired through scavenging, may have provided energy required to kick-start an increasing brain size. A mutation that weakened jaw muscles and gave our brains more space to grow may also lie behind the big brains we have today.
H. habilis - which means "handy man" - was also the first early human to habitually create tools and use them to break bones and extract marrow. This tool-making tradition, known as Oldowan, lasted virtually unchanged for a million years. Oldowan tools were made by breaking an angular rock with a "hammerstone" to give simple, sharp-edged stone flakes for chopping and slicing.
Despite their own increases in brain size, the Paranthropus group of species had become extinct by 1.2 million years ago. Some experts speculate that it was learning to work as a team against predators that gave Homo the edge.
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.para sa asa diay ni? Originally Posted by GONZALEZ_jeza
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CLASS I WANT YOU TO WATCH THIS and make your PERSONAL REACTION which is good for 30 points!
YouTube - 1of5 -- Our Earliest Ancestors - Story of Evolution
sir mana kog watch sa film
Personal Reaction:
Basically the film talks about the evolution of man...There had been found fossilized footsteps from the dawn of mankind. These are oldest footprints made by human ancestors which may be the key to the biggest mystery of human evolution on why human evolved so different and so unlike. There was a new discovered fossil known to be the oldest skull ever found on earth, displayed on the National Museum of Kenya. And this unknown and like-no-other skull believed to be the key heart for the theory of how human beings evolved from apes and came to dominate on the planet. The discovery of this unknown skull creates conflict and debate on the world of science because supposedly this skull should not exist in the world. And now, because of this mystery that science believed had been solved will have to be reopen.
I believe the film opens the new mystery that science has to solved pertaining to human evolution. It's interesting to know that science and technology progress new discovery has been introduce and another mystery is yet to be revealed. Human evolution is a very complex and complicated it is never easy to study evolutions...that is why when Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution...many other scientist and Catholics opposed for there are missing parts/ information on his theory. Still there are questions and confusion left unsolved and mysteries left unrevealed.
The big mystery of human evolution began 10 million years ago when the earth was a very different place and reigned by apes. On Darwin's theory we came from same ancestor, the apes yet I can't seemed grasp his theory for several findings had conflicted on his theory of evolution. We are rational animals thus we are more intelligent that any animals has ever lived. We alone can aspire to understand the deepest mystery of universe, we alone can hope to control natures itself, and we are light years ahead of anything that has every lived before.
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Sir mana ko watch sa vid..
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the researchers in the video really gave us a lot of interesting evidences that can support the theory that man came from apes. But I dont think that those evidences alone-like the skulls they had discovered-can prove the beginnings of man. I mean, it is also possible that those fossils are owned by pure apes and are only mistakenly known to be ape-like creatures. Man is the most complex creature here on earth so it is really hard to understand humans. Its also quite confusing though.
hehe.. sorry sa akong short nah comment sir. cant think straight eh.. nagkasakit ang tao..
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Finally work's over! Hello naa pa tao diri?
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.My very, very late answer to this: (my apologies sir, krn pko nka read sa question through the past posts..) Originally Posted by regnauld
Now...In Chapter 5, - Why are Genes Culture and Gender under Social Influence? this is open to any student which is good for 20 points!
Let the fun begin!
.To find the connection between Genes, Culture and Gender to that of Social Influence we must first know that Social Influence is defined (for me) as the factors and aspects affecting a person's behavior, the cause of his/her attitudes and an important aspect of the development of a living being.
Genes- or heredity, according to my psyc1 and psyc11 teacher, i think we inherit 50% of our attitudes to our parents. It is because of our genes nga naa tay kinda inborn nga capabilities and skills that is not the same with other people. Chances are great sad that we act like our parents, we speak lyk our parents, we think like our parents, because as we all know, first social contact na2 and our inner circle is our home/the family/parents.
Gender- and the roles that society attaches to us as being male/female. Under sa social influence pd ni xa because "I do and act kng unsa ang dpat bh2n sa usa ka female, if female sd ko. I go with the same being, I follow what girls do, because of the fact that I am a girl and this is what the society has attached to us being a girl." There are certain things girls do that boys can't. there are certain things that boys can do, that girls can't.
Culture- As social beings, we are part of a group,a certain culture that defines us. In every country, culture is different. Our culture is a mindset that we developed during childhood socialization.This is under social influence because as we all know the common, nature and nurture affects our growth. Culture is linked with nurture/environment. Lahi2x ang practices, values and norms practiced in every culture..
reference: social psych by myers, wikipedia, The All-Pervading Influence of Culture
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