Thi
s exercise asks you to
choose one
hominid
from bellow
and
look at two
website
s
about that hominid,
then
respond to the information in
a
minimum
of two pages
.
1)
“The Hobb
it” or
Homo floresiensi
s
Read the New York Times article “
Homo f
loresiensis” (
http://www.sci
–
news.com/othersciences/anthropology/science
–
homo
–
floresiens
is
–
01226.html
) and answer the
following questions:
What a
re the debates concerning the discovery of
H. floresiensi
s
?
Where were the fossils found and why is this relevant?
What feature (i.e. body part) is particularly distinct in the skeletal structure of
H. flore
siensi
s
?
Also visit the Smithsonian website “What does it mean to be human?” and investigate
Homo
floresiensis
(
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human
–
fossils/species/homo
–
floresiensis
). Answer
the following questions:
How long ago did
Homo floresiensis
live
?
What
is island dwarfism?
How did
H. floresiensis
probably survive?
2)
Neandert
h
als
or
Homo Neandert
h
alensis
Read the
New York Times article “Nea
nderthals and the Dead.”
(
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/science/neanderthals
–
and
–
the
–
dead.html
).
How were Neandert
als behaving that indicates symbolic thought
?
Wh
at would this be
havior tell us about a Neandert
al belief system?
Also r
ead the article
“
DNA analysis reveals how humans interbred with Neanderthals”
(
h
ttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016
–
03/18/dna
–
analysis
–
humans
–
neanderthals
–
breeding
) and
“Why Am I Neanderthal” (
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/
) and
answ
er the
following questions:
How many times
humans and Neanderthals interbred and what
is the evidence?
How does this evidence impact our understanding of human evolution?
Who else have we interbred with?
3)
Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH’s) or
Homo
sapiens
sapiens
Read the Smithsonian article “The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved”
(
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science
–
nature/The
–
Top
–
Ten
–
Daily
–
Consequences
–
of
–
Having
–
Evolved.html
).
What are the
consequences and how are they
/we
a product of evolution?
Go
to the Smithsonian website
http://humanorig
ins.si.edu/evidence/human
–
fossils/species/homo
–
sapiens
and explore the website.
Scroll down and click on “Evolutionary Tree” then “First
Discovered” and so on. Write
about the information you read. Include information from “How They
Survived.”
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