Monday, February 13, 2012
Quarter 3, Week 4: Significant Fossil Discoveries
First, find an article from a credible source that documents a siginificant fossil discovery of early humans. Then, summarize the content of your article-what was the discovery, where was it, who found it, etc-and explain why it is significant to the study of human evolution. Include a link to the article you used in your blog post.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18obfire.html
Recent archaeological finds show yhat early humans may have heat treated tool as early as 70,000 years ago. Anyone knows that tools are much easier to shape when they've been heated a few hundred degrees, but it wasn't known that humans knew this trick over 72,000 years ago.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/04/09/human.fossil.discovery.evidence.new.homo.species
The site is near Johannesburg, in the Republic of South Africa where members of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg found a 2 million year old human remain they classified as a new species. It is called Australopithecus sediba, which means southern ape. This is siginificant because We can fill in the gap of what happened 2 million years ago. It is a great discovery. Researchers say this species looks to be in a "transitional form" maybe one of the best one's found, the period is between early australopithecines and early members of the genus Homo.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/02/27/european.neandertals.were.verge.extinction.even.arrival.modern.humans
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