PDF-(BOOS)-Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness

In Becoming Human noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors and the significance of our knowledge A worldwide tour of discovery Tattersall takes the reader from 30000yearold cave paintings in France and anthropological digs in Africa to examining human behavior in a New York restaurant And by offering wisdom gleaned from fossil remains primate behavior prehistoric art and archaeology Tattersall presents a stunning picture of where humankind evolved how Darwins theories have changed and what we reliably know about modernday humans capacity for love language and thought Widely praised in the media and an Amazoncom Top10 bestseller Becoming Human is an amazing trip into the past and into the future. Adapted from https. ://sites.google.com/site/highlandhsp3m/unit-1-what-makes-us-human. What does being human mean to you?. What distinguishes humans from animals?. Take a moment an think. REALLY think.. Variation in Living Things. SPECIES  - Group of organisms that interbreed. VARIATION - small differences between individuals of a species  . Some neither helpful nor harmful  . Some enable organism to be better suited to its environment.. Assessment Statements. Outline. . the method for dating rocks and fossils using radioisotopes, with references to . 14. C and . 40. K.. Define half-life. Deduce the approximate age of materials based on a simple decay curve for a radioisotope.. Who are we? . Where did we come from? . What is the human genealogy? . These are basic questions that we all ask. Humans did not evolve . from. Apes. You are . descended. from your mother and father. Chapters 34, 41, and 44. Go back! We f*#ked everything up. Humans and Apes. Homo sapiens . characteristics. Bipedal. Larger brains. Language. Symbolic thought. Artistic expression. Use complex tools. Divergent evolution- starts the same, then the differences add up. Divergent evolution in butterflies. Divergent evolution in butterflies. Human Taxonomy. Starts general, ends specific. Domain . Eukarya. Introduction – Human . Evolution. Mosaic Evolution: . ________________________. With respect to human evolution:. . _____________________. Developed at varying times along our evolutionary history . Part 1: From ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Part 2: What makes us human? Evolution and adaptation in modern humans. How do scientists study human evolution? . HYPOTHESIS. Prediction. Observation. Human skeletal changes due to . bipedalism. Bipedalism. occurred approximately 4 . mya. .. This has led to . morphological. alterations to the . human skeleton. including changes to the arrangement and size of the bones of the foot, . And Race. Problem:. A proverbial Martian anthropologist is given the task of. classifying the great apes. For simplicity these are the human,. chimpanzee, orangutan, and gorilla.. Which is the “odd species out?” . A . girl looks through the replica of a . neanderthal. skull displayed in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of . Krapina. , February 25, 2010. The high-tech, multimedia museum, with exhibitions depicting the evolution from 'Big Bang' to present day. . The human brain is astonishingly different from the brain of any other animal. Written like a detective story, this book brings together the wealth of new research from neurobiology, genetics, and paleontology to explain the runaway evolution of the human brain. Illus. This interdisciplinary book interprets early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and specific habitats. It assesses carefully the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution. Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, the book provides a new synthesis of ideas on hominid evolution. It will be a valuable resource for researchers in physical, biological, or paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology or biogeography. Mike Riddle. m.riddle@verizon.net. www.train2equip.com. www.icr.org. Topics. A history of apemen – the track record. Two case studies. Neandertals. Australopithecines and Lucy. How evolution hinders critical thinking.