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| Kalibur |
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Registered Member #101
Joined: Thu Dec 29 2005, 01:04AMPosts: 578 |
Okay, FT and fishtankclan.com has threads about Sports, CS:S, Tech, FT, FT Servers, and Admin, I want to start some new Threads and maybe even a new Forum section
Now I don’t know about the rest of FT or the people who are not in FT but I really find Science interesting so I thought I would share some Science with you all…
Okay I have many subjects I can talk about but I will only go 1 a
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What Is Human? Over the course of five million years, our predecessors learned to walk on two legs, make tools, compete with predatores, control their surroundings, and survive a calamitous natural disaster that nearly ended our species. This riveting story of human evolution gets to the essence of what exactly makes us human. Human evolution is the theory wtich states that humans developed from primates, or ape-like, ancestors. In 1856, a strange skull was found by some workmen in the Neander Valley in Germany. The odd appearance of the skull led some to believe that it had once belonged to a person who was afflicted with rickets. They did not believe it could have come from an ancestor of modern man. It did, however, form the notion that there could have been creatures that were half-human and half-ape. Ernst Heinrich, a German scientist, claimed that if such a creature were ever found it should be named Pithecanthropus erectus, which meens upright apeman. Even before the discovery of the skull, which is now known as Homo neanderthalensis, people hypothesized that there was some sort of transmutation that took place between species. This, however, was not widely accepted. On November 4, 1859, the view on evolution as a whole changed dramatically. This was the date that Charles Darwin published his work The Origin of Species. With the release of this work, the theory of human evolution became a bit more believable. The theory of natural selection was proposed by Darwin within The Origin of Species. This theory states that the physical traits of an organism are selected for according to the environment it lives in. Even though thesee fossils had both human and ape characteristics, the apelike qualities outnumbered the human ones. Scientists sought to find fossils that were closer to modern man than the Australopithecines. In the early 1960's, Louis Leakey found what he thought was another P. boisei skull, however, the brain case was larger than previous finds. After collaboration with P.V. Tobias and J.R. Napier, he named the skull Homo habilis, which means "handy man". He came up with this name because of the tools found at the site of the skull. Leakey figured that the enlarged brain size made it possible for H. habilis to form tools according to how his/her mind perceived it should look like. Other species of this genus that were found include H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and our own species, H. sapiens sapiens. Below are photos of the first skulls found 
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AKA cupcake
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I was going to ad something but I dont wanna make it longer than it already is. | ||
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| emerican |
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the one on the right looks like pat... | ||
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AKA cupcake
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on the right..what? | ||
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Joined: Tue Dec 06 2005, 01:37AMPosts: 1561 |
Did someone log onto kaliburs account and make an inteligent post? hax! J/K ha..just kidding  i didnt think you where interested in this kind of stuff |
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Registered Member #101
Joined: Thu Dec 29 2005, 01:04AM Posts: 578 |
Yea I love Science... all though school Science was the one subject I did well in My Science is more along the lines as Earth Science |
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| Angry Leprechau |
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Uber Luchador
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Joined: Sun Apr 02 2006, 04:16AMPosts: 345 |
i wish humans still had big foreheads and very heavy unibrows 
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That one guy...
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Joined: Tue May 09 2006, 11:59PMPosts: 2603 |
Angry Leprechau wrote ... rgr that.
i wish humans still had big foreheads and very heavy unibrows |
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you would
Registered Member #149
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 01:08AMPosts: 2039 |
wrote ... Angry Leprechau said ... i wish humans still had big foreheads and very heavy unibrows rgr that. Why? So everyone could look like you? owned |
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Jesus not HeyZeus
Registered Member #370
Joined: Mon Jul 31 2006, 03:49AMPosts: 332 |
You forgot to include at the start was ardipithicus and austrolopithicus (sp.????) nywayz yea we had to learn about all the evolution of man in world history so i kno wut ur talking about...yea well time to sleep brain hurts too much from reading that post and thinking |
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