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    The modern day human has not existed for very long, in fact its one of the recent species to populate the Earth. Before modern day humans or Homo sapiens sapiens as we are scientifically known as, existed a similar yet less developed Homo genus named Homo erectus/ Homo ergaster. Evidence of these species dates back to over 1.9 million years ago and up to as recently as 70,000 years ago in which the evidence can be found in Africa, Europe and Asia. In this essay I will firstly provide a general timeline

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    history there has always been questions that have been difficult to answer when pertaining to the human species. Where do humans come from? How have they become so advanced, when compared to that of similar species? Many have sought to find out the answer, and have found some clues that can be quite interesting. The best way to answer these questions is through the idea of evolution. Evolution, from a biological perspective, is the belief that changes within species takes place over a period

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    The biological topic of my choice is human evolution and natural selection. These topics ties into our class lectures because we have talked about evolution and Lamarck's and Darwin's logic. Lamarck's logic was based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics. He believed that organisms characteristics were inherited during our lifetime. We discussed Lamarck's logic in class, and we learned that Lamarck was not completely right. We also learned that Darwin used variation in the organism's traits

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    Evolution is change over time. Human evolution is a long process of change. Scientific evidence shows that our physical and behavioral traits shared everyone on this planted originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a long period. Human evolution has been going on for over 6 million years according to scientist. Evolution is a series of natural changes that cause species to arise, adapt to their environment, and become extinct. All species have gone through the process of biological evolution

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    to say that religion was the most important thing in life for everyday people. Then comes the renaissance, a time of successful new art, science and new ideas. Humans came out of

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    “Descent with modification”, was what Darwin called the process of living species descending from ancestral species. One example of this theory, Darwin gave was the diversity ancestor from which bears descended. Darwin also proposed the process of natural selection, according to Simon, Dickey, Reece, & Hogan. (2015), individuals with heritable traits best suited to the local environment are more likely to survive and leave the greatest number of healthy offspring. So traits that enhance survival

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    Differential Evolution (DE) is seemingly a standout amongst the most capable and flexible evolutionary optimizers for the nonstop parameter spaces as of late. Since the advancement of DE algorithm on late years is quick and the exploration on and with DE have now achieved a great state, there is an essential need to study late parts of DE algorithm thoroughly. Considering the tremendous advance of research with DE and its applications in various areas of science and innovation, we find that it is

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    lectures on human evolution The CARTA lectures on human evolution included lectures from Joshua Akey from the University of Washington, Kay Prüfer from the Mark Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Tony Capra from Vanderbilt University. Each of the speakers talked in some detail about the interbreeding of Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans. However, each speaker talked about a different aspect of the breeding. Akey spoke about Neandertal and Denisovan DNA in modern humans and their

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    Technology started out as a way to help the human population make life easier on humanity, but once it becomes smarter than us will it really help or hinder our way of life. The definition of technology is “machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge”, according to Google. When you pick up your smartphone do you ever really think that it may be hurting the human race? Once your child sees you doing this action every hour of every day they will want to also do what

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    Evolution is the change of an organism, over time the organism have change to be more adapted to the environment that they are surrounded in order to live. By evolve that mean that their structure will change, for an example, their skeleton structure however the ancestor skeleton structure are some what similar to the more recent organisms. For instant, fossil is a great example for evolution, fossil is the remains of organisms that use to be alive, when scientist examine the fossil they found that

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