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    The Natural Instincts of Humans are Good Introduction The common conception that human beings are born evil is a terrible misconception. As a person living in today's day and age it is easy to make this mistake because when we turn on the radio, TV, open a newspaper or go online all we tend to see is some horrific atrocity committed by a person, community, government or religious group against others, for no real reason. However, the true nature of a person is that of goodness and kindness. When

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    Human used to be monkeys and evolved as time went by. Humans did not evolve from the monkeys that are around us today, they are our cousins. As the habitat changed and their was less trees for us to climb, we started to walk on two legs to be able to run from danger. Australopithecines were the first human evolution. They walked on two legs and were not that tall. They had larger brains than the modern Chimpanzies.Homo habilis came next and had way bigger brains than Australopithecines. They started

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    The Indigenous Australians are the Most ancient Civilization claims a DNA study According to science, Indigenous Australians are the oldest and most ancient civilization on the planet. The study tracks these ancient humans by using the DNA of the modern population in Papua New Guinea and Australia and using it as a clue to tack down the oldest civilization on Planet Earth. These analysis discovered prehistoric connection with an unknown hominin cousin as well as a connection to the fist humans to

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    Sea Lions Research Paper

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    Seven species of sea lions exist in the world. They are categorized into a group of animals that are known as pinnipeds. The modern Sea Lions body was built for marine life (life in water). They have torpedo shaped torsos that are smooth with short and thick hair, for easy land and water gliding. Their torsos are pale in colour and the rest of their body is a dark grey or dark brown, depending on the seas lion species. Their flippers are very strong and powerful, there are 2 flippers at the front

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    Have you ever wondered what gorillas and baboons eat, where they live, and what they look like? Even though you may think these primates are the same, they are really quite different. From the habitats to the diets, gorillas and baboons are interesting creatures. Some of the differences of these two animals traits are that gorillas weigh about 374 pounds and baboons only weigh about 82 pounds at the most. Gorillas are about 5.6 ft tall and baboons are only 2.3 ft tall. A few similarities are

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    Ape vs Gorilla An Ape and a Gorilla are two of many in the Great Apes group, Gorillas seem to be very tall and durable. While, Apes however seem to be very small and weak/fragile. Let’s take a look on some more of their differences. Gorillas and Apes might be very similar, but their looks on the other hand are very, very different. First, Gorillas are massive omnivores going around “6 feet and 2 inches tall and coming in at a whopping 350 pounds!”(Ann Elwood). Their fur is a dark black

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    Titi Monkeys

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    While some Neotropical primate species use the forest floor extensively, others tend to exploit the ground only when necessary. A recent overview of ground use by Pitheciidae covered Pitheciinae (uacaris - Cacajao, cuxius - Chiropotes and sakis - Pithecia), but did not include titi monkeys (Callicebiinae: Callicebus, Cheracebus and Plecturocebus). However, unlike the generally high-canopy Pitheciinae, members of the Callibiinae often use low forest strata and disturbed fragments, putting them in

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    Since Naledi has human and australopithecines features I think she should be placed 2-3 million years ago. I believe Naledi was an early Homo that was in the early stages of the body evolving. In the article This Face Changes the Human Story. But How? it states that “Parts of the skeletons looked astonishingly modern. But others were just as astonishingly primitive—in some cases, even more apelike than the australopithecines.” That means that in that certain group you had a mix of modern human looking

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    Bipedalism Essay

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    Bipeds have adapted various associated morphological qualities that understand challenges postured by frequent bipedalism. These anatomical traits developed over a huge number of years and contrasts exist amongst prior and later Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo species. Australopithecine and paranthropine development speaks to an outstanding stride in the advancement of people on the grounds that these species are among the soonest hominins known to have evolved. Major morphological elements

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    In today`s era, we have come far in technology that almost everything has become possible, like cloning for instance. Many people might come to think of a clone as an exact replica of an object or person. In movies, we see humans being cloned and the clone looks just like them, but acts more like a robot. A human being`s appearance would be described by their hair, eyes, voice, and body figure. Human begins are also described as having emotions and being able to communicate with one another through

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