Module 3 - 5 Flashcards
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- Man was created by God out of dust
- 6th day of creation
- Adam and Eve
Biblical theory (Genesis 2: 1-24)
- Man originated from bamboo
- Malakas at Maganda
Myths and Legends
- Charles Darwin
- Origin of the Species
- Environment factors certain organisms and those organisms can survive can pass on their traits (“survival of the fittest”)
Natural Selection
Some individuals are better adapted to their environment than others
Variation
Organisms produce progeny with different set of traits that can be inherited
Heritability
Organisms that have traits most suitable to their environment survives and pass it off to their off-springs
Differential reproductive process
What are the 2 environmental factors that initiated the evolution of man?
Continental drift, Climate change
Biological factors that initiated the evolution of man
- Development and enlargement of the human brain
- Development and enlargement of vocal tract
- Improvement of the gripping capacity
First to exhibit bipedalism, or walking on two feet
Australopithicus Sp.
Lived 3.9-3.0 million years ago, first discovered in 1974 by Carl
Johansson in Ethiopia, nicknamed “Lucy”
Australopithecus afarensis
Lived 3.3-2.1 million years ago, first discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart in South Africa, nicknamed “Taung”
Australopithecus africanus
First known toolmaker
Homo Habilis
First discovered by Louis and Mary Leakey in 1960 in present-day Tanzania
Homo Habilis
First discovered in Java, Indonesia in 1891 by Eugene Dubois
Homo erectus
First known user and maker of fire
Homo erectus
First known hominid to travel outside Africa
Homo erectus
First discovered in 1856 in Neander Valley, Germany, by Johann Carl Fulhrott
Homo Neanderthalensis
First known creator of clothes and ornaments
Homo Neanderthalensis
First known practitioner of burials
Homo Neanderthalensis
The modern-day humans, first taxonomically described by Carolus Linnaeus
Homo sapiens
Claimed to be the “missing link” between apes and humans by Charles Dawson in 1912
Piltdown man
Modern chemical tests conducted in 1949 concluded that it was a fake hominid, composed of parts from a human and an ape combined together
Piltdown man
Races:
European region
Caucasoid
Races:
South Asian region
Australoid