EDF1005- Reflection #4

From reading all these articles I have learned that we have all descended from another species, each time becoming more and more different from the other. Each time they would advance more than their previous species. This is also a lot like today’s society, each and every day we are growing with more knowledge and new and better equipment. We have increased from the size of the brain, to the feet, height, arms, etc. The earlier form of humans used to be very short, about 3 ft. It is also incredible how archeologist know so much about these species only with studying the bone or fossil which allows them to know how long ago they came about. I learned there was a species they named "Lucy" which resembled the modern human a lot in which she didn’t limp like the chimpanzee and the pelvis and bone structure was made almost like ours. She walked like a human being, also known as Hominid. We are all known as Hominids because we walk on two legs. "Lucy" was had many characteristics like a chimp and the A. Afarensis has been the most recent discovered species and was considered apelike, not a human being. The small skull capacity and bipedal upright walk shows evidence somewhat of the apes. The first human species had appeared in the world in Africa. None of this has affected what I believe because I still think that Homeosapiens are the closest to modern humans. I still believe we are all connected and do form some sort of family tree, but we all branch out into our own species which has been developed over time. I never knew though that Homoerectus survived for almost a million years, if only we were to live that long! I also discovered that many of the features of the skulls and bones found represent those of the ape, which is the previous species that is most similar to us. The teeth of the different species also say a lot about the age of these fossils and artifacts found. Many of these craniums and skulls found were discovered in Africa where the first humans were said to have began to be developed. Scientists have discovered that they can trace back also with the DNA and chromosomes through a test.