Becoming Human: Last Human Standing

Have you ever wondered why all of our early ancestors and early humans in general have disappeared and we have not? This was quite a fascinating happening because it was proven that Neanderthals had an even bigger brain then our own. So how come that at the very end we were the ones that stayed and not them? It all comes down to one big thing. And that is the diet which we had. Even though the Neanderthals had bigger brains that our own, they didn't use the quality they could have used. In other words our brains were more complex and sophisticated  then theirs. As a fact to this they only ate meat and just meat nothing else, not even vegetables. So for killing there pray they used maybe two or three different types of weapons to kill their pray. After making the same type of technology over and over again your intelligence doesn't quite grow anymore, because your so used to it. After a couple of years we {Homo Sapiens} migrated to a place next to the water which made us change our whole daily routines and tasks. We also change the way we eat and hunt and made new equipment which would suit the place we are haunting at. As you can see only from this little thing like the change in food changed the whole evolution to other early humans. Thus making them vanish and making us the last human standing

"Last Human Standing ." Becoming Human. PBS NOVA. 31 Aug. 2011. Television. 

Taming Fire; The first scientist

Have you ever thought about fire and how it saved and helped humanity. You probably didn't. Well a resource which modern humans use rarely was once a key thing to survival. Scientist estimated that humans have been using fire for at least 250,000 but they were most likely wrong, because they found animals bones in a cave somewhere in Swartkrans that were completely burned up. And the temperature used to cook them was too high for it to be a wildfire thus making fire use be older then a 1,000,000 years. In the past humans would have used hearths {a fire place made out of stone}, often identified by a circle of rocks around it. And inside of them were bones, animal remains if you will. Like i mentioned before hearths have a higher temperature of heat then any other natural fire like wildfire, but of course not as hot as lava. Who ever seemed to ignore all of the consequences of fire changed human evolution for the better. A result of this would be food because with fire it is easier to digest it and fire also cleans up all the bacteria and worms. Another big influence fire made was the immigration of early humans form Africa to Europe and Asia, which expanded the life of early humans. Fire also protected early humans from dangers predators while they were sound asleep. As you can see their are lots of ways that fire helped us humans, in fact to much for me to write but these are the most basic ones. With out someone taking a risk we would have never discovered fire this early.

On Our Own Two Feet

Humans way of waking is unique. We are the only creatures on earth to walk up straight on only two legs, and we have been doing this for a very long time, more then 6 million years to be exact. Now because we got used to walking this way we don't but a lot of effort into it, or in other words we have a very good balance thanks to our pelvis. It is structured in a way to keep our body upright while in apes it is turned side was which makes the waste bend more easily. One very interesting fact i learned while reading this article is that humans and apes are NOT RELATED! They have the same ancestor but form there they branch of in different ways and new creatures where born like us for example. As all of you know Apes and humans have some similar features but clearly our brain is much much larger then theirs thats the one of the biggest differences when comparing us to apes. When you turn all of the skulls over you will see a whole. Now for humans the whole is right in the middle of the back of their head this is where the spine cord goes and this is also another reason why we can easily walk on two legs. The apes spine cord hole is on the top of their head which makes the spine curve more therefore it is easier for them to walk on four legs. Even though our bodies changes and our brains grew, our ancestors childhood was pretty short, kind of like an apes. Not to mentioned that there growth was doubled when they were small. In conlusion i would like to mention that we have change and developed {in a better way} but there still are mysterious form the past about us which are not yet solved