Two Points Made About Human Evolution

Chapter 1: The starting point from which Diamond answers Yali’s question is 11,000 BC, the beginning of village life, 13,000 years ago. Diamond summarizes human history up to that point, starting with humans’ evolution from monkeys 7 million years ago and the Homo erectus 2.5 million years ago, all restricted to Africa and spread from there. The Great Leap Forward corresponds with the first known inhabitants of Eurasia and Australia/New Guinea. Human colonization of new continents and islands links to the extinction of many species, known as the overkill hypothesis or as some believe the climate hypothesis. Humans continued to spread to lands like Siberia and the Americas via Berlin Strait/Berlin Land Bridge leading to Alaska. Although the conditions of each continent were vastly different, someone could not have guessed that Eurasia would be the one to develop the quickest.

According to anthropologists the first human beings lived in Ethiopia, Africa around 2 million years ago for example: Lucy known as the oldest human found there. The most probable reason why the first human left Africa is because of the Ice Age. The cold made life so difficult to survive and somehow reduced in their population. They went through a land bridge, which existed to connect North America and Asia during the Ice Age.

Human migration started from Africa , then led out to the Middles East. From there they went westward into Eurasia and eastward into Asia, all 45,000 years ago. With the

Have you ever wonder where you came from? Well about 25,000 years ago humans migrated over from Asia to North America (Beauchemin 1). Around 1000 A.D, Europeans first met the Native Americans. Christopher Columbus later sailed West, in 1492, from Europe hoping to find Asia. Instead of Christopher Columbus finding the Asia he found the Americas (Beauchemin 1).

About 10,000 years ago humans migrated across Beringia into the Western Hemisphere. The people that migrated from Asia to America are known as Native Americans. European contact with the Vikings and Moors led to a reawakened dynamism that led to the The Crusades. While attempting to take the Holy Land from the Moors, the Europeans discovered desirable commodities from Asia. These discoveries led to a European appetite for these goods and this indirectly led to eventually to exploration of the New World.

Other species of humans other than modern humans died out or were long bred out during the Pleistocene glaciers. During the end of the Late Pleistocene period was when the ice began to melt. It left land-ice bridges and humanity was able to spread to every continent on Earth, except for Antarctica.

Three societies started the early times of life. Each society had different cultures and beliefs. With the three societies, Native America, African, and European. There where various of ways that believed settler differentiated through time Paleo, Archaic, Pre-Columbian Era. The Era’s had different belief in each of them but also had growth. Starting with the Paleo- Indian era, numerous years ago, was the first people who travel to the North America or that to be believed were the Paleo-Indian. Not knowing the true impacted on what they were coming to settled to the North America for. Different opinions on the settlement of the Native America what brought them to North America, were they just being lucky and chasing food. The Paleo-Indian Era 10,000- 15,000 years ago, not really having the knowledge of the Paleo

When an ancient skeletin was uncovered durring the breaking down of limestone cliffs and said to be a different species of human, the people of europe were shaken. German scientists rejected the idea, yet other people were open to the idea that there had been another species despite what was said in the bible. This was when the first idea that there had been an ice age began. Soon after Charles Dariwin published his book on the origin of species. This lead to the break in long lasting biblical theories. There were some isses that i was not aware of before reading this artice. One of them being that people would argue over weather or not people migrated from Asia and Europe to North America. I feel that this explains how we made out way over to the Americsas, because the Azteks did not just show up one day. They had to of come from somewhere. This also had an impact on america as we know it today, beause if they had never migrated there would of never been Native Americans in the colonies as they were when columbus arived. Amrica would of been alot different then we know it

The Indo-European Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects around 3300 BC, splitting away from a general westwards migration to head towards the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea.

Neanderthals were hunter-gatherers who moved across Europe with the advance and retreat of the Ice Age glaciers. Their total population probably never exceeded 100,000. From 180,000 to 130,000years ago large glaciers covered much of Europe and Neanderthal remains are scarce. After 130,000years ago, tool technology developed rapidly to become the classic Neanderthal technology called the

European descendants emigrated to regions across the world that had climates and temperate zones very similar to Europe. Crosby argues this point by providing data from the 900s to the 1900s, but also provides research from Pangaea. The reason he brings up Pangaea is to show how humans have adapted to different ways of life, and created civilizations. “These

In short, some 40,000-30,000 years ago, the central ancestors from haplogroup IJ migrated to what is now Scandinavia and Finland and then mutated into haplogroup I about 25,000 years ago.

The first who migrated from their homeland where Asian Hunters, originally from East Africa, who traveled in search of food, about 50,000 to 20,000 years ago. They later became to be known as

Human evolution is the biological and cultural development of humans. A human is any member of the species Homo sapiens, meaning "wise man." Since at least the Upper Paleolithic era, some 40,000 years ago, every human society has devised a creation myth to explain how humans came to be. Creation myths are based on cultural beliefs that have been adopted as a legitimate explanation by a society as to where we came from.

Evolutionary theory, perhaps the first thought is a horizontal line of a monkey walking through a five-step evolutionary process of becoming a human. Most people have a somewhat similar idea when they think about evolutionary theory. From what I have learned thus far in Archaeology is there is more to evolutionary theory than what one would have previously thought.