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Title: Notes On Hominids
Description: Thes notes show all the possible information I took on hominids.
Description: Thes notes show all the possible information I took on hominids.
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7/31/15
A working definition of Evolution: The
process which chance or random
mutations (changes) within the
genetic code or DNA of an organism
creates living forms better and better
adapted to their environment and for
survival
The father of evolutionary theory,
Charles Darwin, set down his ideas in
his Origin of the Species a book
outlining the process of natural
selection
Natural selection insures the success
of the most efficient models
...
The fireball of and
cloud cover of steam, gas, and debris blotted out the sun and
destroyed 95% of all life forms
Evidence: The discovery of the element iridium by Dr
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level (strata)
...
Further investigation have pinpointed the asteroid’s crater off
the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico
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A life form lasting over 150 million
years
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First
mammals
were rodent
like and lived
with the
dinosaurs
...
9/2/15
Fossils of the earliest mammals are more than
200 million years old
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Some small rodentlike
mammals scamper into the trees
perhaps to escape competition on the
ground
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Prosimians are an “in
between stage” between the primitive
rodent animals that first scampered
into the trees and the more
modernprimatesmonkeys, apes and
hominids (human)
Both lemurs and tarsiers are prosimians
and are considred living fossils
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Some of the primates came down in
their search for food
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On the ground natural forces favored the following
adaptations
...
This
allowed primates to see over the grassy savannahs for
their own protection
The freeing of hands and the development of straight
fingers where the fifth finger evolves into an opposable
thumb making possible fine motor coordination and
sophisticated tool making
The evolution of the big brain or neo cortex that
occurred with the freeing of the hand
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While a
British subject he was raised as a
Kikiuyu and was nicknamed the
white black man
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The skull was dated to be
1
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5
to 4 million years
Title: Notes On Hominids
Description: Thes notes show all the possible information I took on hominids.
Description: Thes notes show all the possible information I took on hominids.