PDF-(EBOOK)-A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

Running Time gt 10 hrs and 3 minsThe idea that evolution enables specific behaviors to come naturally to anyone is a profoundly unhelpful way to understand ourselves and our speciesA great deal of evidence surrounding what humans are like and the conditions that shape human evolution recently surfaced and its time to reexamine the origins of the human species In the past seven million years many humans have moved away from the tropical forests of Africa and into airconditioned homes While the journeys our ancestors took are still being investigated today we can piece together a significant portion of the narrative using a wide range of disciplines Lesley Newson and Peter J Richerson a husbandandwife team with backgrounds in biology from the University of California Davis have assembled a story of the evolutionary journey of humankindIn THE STORY OF US Newson and Richerson illustrate the process of geneculture coevolution by taking readers through seven stages of human evolution They begin with the life of the ape seven million years ago moving through and beyond the modern homosapien Newson and Richerson reveal how life has changed throughout time offering narrative sections in addition to the hard science to illustrate the problems our ancestors faced and what they did to overcome them The book offers insight into the environment resources culture and more making it easy for readers to imagine what life was like at different stages throughout human historyNot only does THE STORY OF US depict how complex networks of caring sharing and competition have developed over time but the book also delves into the creation of culture The resulting book explains why the human psyche is more malleable than any other animals on our earth2020 Lesley Newson Pete Richerson P2021 HighBridge a division of Recorded Books. 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.. A mechanism for change in populations.. Any change in the . inherited . traits within a population across generations. Individuals better adapted to their environment tend to survive and . produce more offspring. Stevan J. Arnold. Department of Integrative Biology. Oregon State University. Outline. Criteria for the conservation of individual species. G. L. Simpson’s modes of evolution. Evolution of body size: data. Introduction – Human . Evolution. Mosaic Evolution: . ________________________. With respect to human evolution:. . _____________________. Developed at varying times along our evolutionary history . . origins of biodiversity . Adaptations that allow organisms to exploit their . . environment. Self discovery. Keystone of biology (including human health). Lecture: HIV. Motivation. What can we learn when we apply evolutionary principles to our understanding of the . Mechanisms of concerted evolution. Unequal cross-over. Gene conversion: non-reciprocal transfer of information between homologous sequences; the main mechanism invoked to explain concerted evolution. Artificial selection increases life span in fruit flies. Inherent limits, or can lifespan evolve?. Fruit fly expt:. Female sockeye salmon defending its nest before dying. II. Fundamental Trade-offs. Mite Kiwi bird. 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. Evidence of Evolution For Non-Biologists Darwin Day Indiana University Southeast February 10, 2011 Kentucky State Fair August 2011 and 2012 Skepticamp Kentucky June 9, 2012 Darwin Day Reasonable Living Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Charles Darwin—A Summary. British Naturalist. Sailed aboard the . H.M.S. Beagle in 1831. Observed the wide variety of different animals in the Galapagos Islands on this trip. 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 process by which organism change over time. Based on science, not opinion.. Darwin. :. Evolution is descent with modification. Evolution. :. changes through time. Species accumulate difference.