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Bipedalism and Tool Making: Tool Making in Apes

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Bipedalism

  • Human evolution is measured in terms of many aspects like upright walking, development of cranial capacity and technological advancements.
  • The earliest hominine fossils discovered so far from Ethiopia and Kenya are dated 2 million years earlier.
  • They show significant adaptation to bipedalism in combination with a hominine dental pattern that has distinct apelike overtones.
  • There…

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Emergences of Modern Human and Dispersal

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  • The evolution is a slow but continuous process through which the organisms transform from simpler to complex creatures. The theories, concerning the evolution of life date back to the ancient Greeks, but it was only during the nineteenth century that the first comprehensive theories of evolution were developed.
  • Before the mid-1800՚s, many thinkers had suggested evolutionary theories. But those theories were not acceptable because they lack understanding of the age of the earth and explanation for the evolutionary process.
  • One such early theory of evolution was posited by Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1809) . He proposed that species change and adapt to their environment through physical characteristics acquir…

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