{"id":9516,"date":"2022-05-20T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2022-05-20T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:39:48","slug":"final-writing-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/final-writing-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Writing Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A 140 \u2013 WRITING ASSIGNMENT\u2013 CONTENT MODULES 4 &amp; 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Complete all three sections,save as a PDF, JPEG,or Word file, and upload through Assignment by<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>11:59pm on Saturday, 5\/21\/2022<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><strong>PART I&nbsp; Developillustrated mini-reports summarizing what scientists have discovered about each of the following forms.For each form listed, tell in what geographic area or areas the extant species occurs or where the fossil evidence for each form has been found. Provide illustrations or photos (hand drawn or copied from the internet) of the skull and post-cranial skeleton (skeletal reconstruction for fossil forms)and a full body restoration, illustration, or photograph of anadult male and an adult femaleof each species, if available. Finally, describe the observed or inferred &nbsp;(likely) preferred habitat(s), ecological role\/roles, locomotor patterns, diet, social structure (group social organization), and reproductive strategy typical of each species<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Aegyptopithecuszeuxis<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u224830 million year old fossil \u201cdawn anthropoid\u201d from the Jebel Qatrani Formation in Egypt<br><em>Aegyptopithecus<\/em><\/strong> is an early <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil\">fossil<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catarrhini\">catarrhine<\/a> that predates the divergence between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominoids\">hominoids<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ape\">apes<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cercopithecidae\">cercopithecoids<\/a> (Old World monkeys). It is known from a single species, <strong><em>Aegyptopithecuszeuxis<\/em><\/strong>, which lived around 30 million years ago in the early part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oligocene\">Oligocene<\/a> epoch.<strong><\/strong><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Afropithecusturkanensis<\/em><\/strong><strong>fossil ape from earlier Miocene (16-18 mya) East African localities.<br><em>Afropithecus<\/em><\/strong> is a genus of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miocene\">Miocene<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominoid\">hominoid<\/a> with the sole species <strong><em>Afropithecusturkanensis<\/em><\/strong>, it was excavated from a small site near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Turkana\">Lake Turkana<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Kalodirr&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Kalodirr<\/a> in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\">Kenya<\/a> in 1986 and named by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Leakey\">Richard Leakey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meave_Leakey\">Meave Leakey<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afropithecus#cite_note-Leakey,_R.E._1998-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> The estimated age of <em>Afropithecus<\/em> is between 16 and 18 million years old<strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Proboscis Monkey (<\/strong><strong><em>Nasalis larvatus<\/em><\/strong><strong>) largest of the colobines<br><\/strong>The <strong>proboscis monkey<\/strong> (<em>Nasalis larvatus<\/em>) or <strong>long-nosed monkey<\/strong> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arboreal\">arboreal<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_World_monkey\">Old World monkey<\/a> with an unusually large nose, a reddish-brown skin color and a long tail. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endemism\">endemic<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southeast_Asia\">southeast Asian<\/a> island of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borneo\">Borneo<\/a> and is found mostly in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mangrove_forest\">mangrove forests<\/a>that grow in coastal areas of the island.This species co-exists with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bornean_orangutan\">Bornean orangutan<\/a>. <strong><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mandrill (<\/strong><strong><em>Mandrillus sphynx<\/em><\/strong><strong>) largest of the Cercopithecoids (Old World monkeys)<\/strong>The <strong>mandrill<\/strong> (<em>Mandrillus sphinx<\/em>) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Primate\">primate<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_World_monkey\">Old World monkey<\/a> (Cercopithecidae) family.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandrill#cite_note-Nowak1999-5\"><sup>[5]<\/sup><\/a> It is one of two species in the genus <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandrillus\"><em>Mandrillus<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drill_(animal)\">drill<\/a>. Although they superficially resemble <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baboon\">baboons<\/a>, they are more closely related to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mangabey\">mangabeys<\/a> of the genus <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cercocebus\"><em>Cercocebus<\/em><\/a>. Mandrills are found in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameroon\">Cameroon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabon\">Gabon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equatorial_Guinea\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_the_Congo\">Republic of the Congo<\/a>. Mandrills mostly live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropical_rainforest\">tropical rainforest<\/a> and in large groups. Mandrills are the world&#8217;s largest monkeys. <strong><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hamadryas Baboons (<\/strong><strong><em>Papio hamadryas<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>The <strong>hamadryas baboon<\/strong> (<em>Papio hamadryas<\/em>) is a species of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baboon\">baboon<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_World_monkey\">Old World monkey<\/a> family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horn_of_Africa\">Horn of Africa<\/a> and the southwestern region of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabian_Peninsula\">Arabian Peninsula<\/a>. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Egypt\">ancient Egyptians<\/a> and appears in various roles in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Egyptian_religion\">ancient Egyptian religion<\/a>, hence its alternative name of &#8216;sacred baboon&#8217;<strong>.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bornean Orangutan (<\/strong><strong><em>Pongo pygmaeus<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<br><\/strong><strong>Orangutans<\/strong> are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominidae\">great apes<\/a> native to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainforest\">rainforests<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\">Indonesia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia\">Malaysia<\/a>. They are now found only in parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borneo\">Borneo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumatra\">Sumatra<\/a>, but during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleistocene\">Pleistocene<\/a> they ranged throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southeast_Asia\">Southeast Asia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_China\">South China<\/a>. Classified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a><strong><em>Pongo<\/em><\/strong>, orangutans were originally considered to be one species. From 1996, they were divided into two species: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bornean_orangutan\">Bornean orangutan<\/a> (<em>P. pygmaeus<\/em>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumatran_orangutan\">Sumatran orangutan<\/a> (<em>P. abelii<\/em>). A third species, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tapanuli_orangutan\">Tapanuli orangutan<\/a> (<em>P. tapanuliensis<\/em>), was identified definitively in 2017.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Western Lowland Gorilla (<em>Gorilla gorilla<\/em>)<br>Gorillas<\/strong> are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbivorous\">herbivorous<\/a>, predominantly ground-dwelling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_ape\">great apes<\/a> that inhabit the tropical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forests\">forests<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equatorial_Africa\">equatorial Africa<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a><strong><em>Gorilla<\/em><\/strong> is divided into two species: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_gorilla\">eastern gorilla<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_gorilla\">western gorilla<\/a>, and either four or five <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subspecies\">subspecies<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\">DNA<\/a> of gorillas is highly similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_evolutionary_genetics\">that of humans<\/a>, from 95 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\">humans<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimpanzees\">chimpanzees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonobos\">bonobos<\/a>. Gorillas are the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neontology#Extant_taxa_versus_extinct_taxa\">living<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Primate\">primates<\/a>, reaching heights between 1.25 and 1.8 metres, weights between 100 and 270&nbsp;kg, and arm spans up to 2.6 metres, depending on species and sex. They tend to live in troops, with the leader being called a silverback.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chimpanzee (<\/strong><strong><em>Pan troglodytes<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>The <strong>chimpanzee<\/strong> (<em>Pan troglodytes<\/em>), also known simply as <strong>chimp<\/strong>, is a species of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominidae\">great ape<\/a> native to the forest and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah\">savannah<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropical_Africa\">tropical Africa<\/a>. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. The chimpanzee and the closely related <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonobo\">bonobo<\/a> are classified in the genus <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_(genus)\"><em>Pan<\/em><\/a>. Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that <em>Pan<\/em> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sister_taxon\">sister taxon<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_evolution\">human lineage<\/a> and is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\">humans<\/a>&#8216; closest living relative.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Bonobo (<\/strong><strong><em>Pan paniscus<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>) is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endangered\">endangered<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_ape\">great ape<\/a>. It is one of the two <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a> making up the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_(genus)\"><em>Pan<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> the other being the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_chimpanzee\">common chimpanzee<\/a> (<em>Pan troglodytes<\/em>). The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face, tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a 500,000&nbsp;km<sup>2<\/sup> (190,000&nbsp;sq&nbsp;mi) area of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congo_Basin\">Congo Basin<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a>, Central Africa.<strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Ardipithecus ramidus<\/em><\/strong><strong>4.4 million year old hominin from Aramis, Ethiopia<em>Ardipithecus ramidus<\/em><\/strong> is a species of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australopithecine\">australopithecine<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afar_region\">Afar region<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Pliocene\">Early Pliocene<\/a> Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago (mya). <em>A. ramidus<\/em>, unlike modern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominid\">hominids<\/a>, has adaptations for both walking on two legs (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biped\">bipedality<\/a>) and life in the trees (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arboreal\">arboreality<\/a>). However, it would not have been as efficient at bipedality as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\">humans<\/a>, nor at arboreality as non-human great apes. Its discovery, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miocene\">Miocene<\/a> apes, has reworked academic understanding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimpanzee-human_last_common_ancestor\">chimpanzee-human last common ancestor<\/a> from appearing much like modern day <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimpanzee\">chimpanzees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orangutan\">orangutans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gorilla\">gorillas<\/a> to being a creature without a modern anatomical cognate. <strong><\/strong><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Australopithecus afarensis<\/em><\/strong><strong>(Lucy and her kin from Hadar, Laetoli, Dikika, Lomekwi, etc.)<em>Australopithecus afarensis<\/em><\/strong> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extinct\">extinct<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australopithecine\">australopithecine<\/a> which lived from about 3.9\u20132.9 million years ago (mya) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pliocene\">Pliocene<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Africa\">East Africa<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australopithecus_afarensis#cite_note-:0-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> The first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil\">fossils<\/a> were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s. From 1972 to 1977, the International Afar Research Expedition\u2014led by anthropologists <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maurice_Taieb\">Maurice Taieb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Johanson\">Donald Johanson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yves_Coppens\">Yves Coppens<\/a>\u2014unearthed several hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominin\">hominin<\/a> specimens in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hadar,_Ethiopia\">Hadar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>, the most significant being the exceedingly well-preserved skeleton AL 288-1 (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_(Australopithecus)\">Lucy<\/a>&#8220;) and the site <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AL_333\">AL 333<\/a> (&#8220;the First Family&#8221;). Beginning in 1974, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Leakey\">Mary Leakey<\/a> led an expedition into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laetoli\">Laetoli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>, and notably recovered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil_trackway\">fossil trackways<\/a>. In 1978, the species was first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species_description\">described<\/a>, but this was followed by arguments for splitting the wealth of specimens into different species given the wide range of variation which had been attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_dimorphism\">sexual dimorphism<\/a> (normal differences between males and females).<strong><\/strong><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Homo habilis <\/em><\/strong><strong>(including<\/strong><strong><em>Homo rudolfensis<\/em><\/strong><strong>) a<\/strong><strong>ssociated technology: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oldowan\">Oldowan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone_tool\">stone-tool<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industry_(archaeology)\">industry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Homo habilis<\/em><\/strong> (&#8220;handy man&#8221;) is an extinct <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_human\">archaic human<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Pleistocene\">Early Pleistocene<\/a> of East and South Africa about 2.31 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago (mya).<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homo ergaster (also referred to as African <\/strong><strong><em>Homo erectus<\/em><\/strong><strong>)associated technology: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acheulean\">Acheulean<\/a><strong>stone tool industry<a><br><em>Homo ergaster<\/em><\/a><\/strong> is an extinct <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_humans\">archaic humans<\/a> who lived in Africa in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Pleistocene\">Early Pleistocene<\/a>. Whether <em>H. ergaster<\/em> constitutes a species of its own or should be subsumed into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_erectus\"><em>H. erectus<\/em><\/a> is an ongoing and unresolved dispute within <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleoanthropology\">palaeoanthropology<\/a>. The name <em>Homo ergaster<\/em> roughly translates to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ergaster\">working<\/a> man&#8221;, a reference to the more advanced tools (large bifaces) used by the species in comparison to those of their ancestors (Oldowan Industry). <em>H. erectus<\/em> is credited with inventing the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acheulean\">Acheulean<\/a> stone tool industry, succeeding the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oldowan\">Oldowan<\/a> industry, and were the first to make <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithic_flake\">lithic flakes<\/a> bigger than 10&nbsp;cm (3.9&nbsp;in), and large bifaces including<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hand_axe\">hand axes<\/a>, picks, knives, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleaver_(tool)\">cleavers<\/a>.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART II&nbsp; Compose illustrated mini-reports summarizing what scientists have discovered or inferred regarding the biological and cultural patterns characteristic of the Neanderthals and the biological and cultural patterns characteristic of early modern <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> about 45,000 years ago when early modern humans spread across a Europe already occupied by Neanderthals for thousands of years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be sure to include illustrations and information summarizing what is known of the rather simple and monotonous Mousterian toolkits (occasional bifaces,prepared core scrapers, crude points, possible stabbing spears) made by Neanderthals, as well as the much more sophisticated and varied Upper Paleolithic tool kits made by early modern humans. Upper Paleolithic (modern human\u2019s) industries are all characterized by long thin stone blades retouched for many different purposes, carved and polished bone and ivory implements, carved figurines and other art objects, jewelry, cave paintings, decorative art, musical instruments, projectile technologies with beautiful stone and bone spear points, elaborately carved spear throwers and harpoons, as well as an amazing variety of other indicators that the early modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic possessed full cultural capacity, symbolic consciousness including spoken language,&nbsp; a propensity for cultural innovation and change, and what Joseph Campbell referred to as a mythic imagination in full career.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neanderthals (Associated material culture: Middle Paleolithic\/ Mousterian Industry)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neanderthals<\/strong>(also <strong>Neandertals<\/strong>, or <em>Homo neanderthalensis<\/em>) are an extinct <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_humans\">archaic humans<\/a> who lived in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurasia\">Eurasia<\/a> until about 40,000 years ago. While the cause of their extinction remains \u201chighly contested,\u201d demographic factors like small population size, inbreeding, and random fluctuations are considered likely factors. Other scholars have proposed competitive replacement, assimilation into the modern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_genome\">human genome<\/a> (bred into extinction), great <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change\">climatic change<\/a>, disease, or a combination of these factors.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Early Modern <em>Homo sapiens <\/em>(associated material culture: various Upper Paleolithic Industries)<br>Early European modern humans<\/strong> (<strong>EEMH<\/strong>), or <strong>Cro-Magnons,<\/strong> were the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_modern_human\">early modern humans<\/a> (<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>) to settle in Europe, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 48,000 years ago. They interacted and interbred with the indigenous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal\">Neanderthals<\/a> (<em>H. neanderthalensis<\/em>), who went extinct about 40,000 years ago; Early European modern humans (EEMH) produced <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_Palaeolithic\">Upper Palaeolithic<\/a> cultures, the first major one being the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurignacian\">Aurignacian<\/a>, which was succeeded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravettian\">Gravettian<\/a> by 30,000 years ago. <strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART III.&nbsp; Taking into account what you have learned about human evolutionary patterns, develop a list of specific ways that we (modern humans living in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century) can adjust our own personal behavioral patterns and lifeways (diet, exercise, sleep, social activities, leisure time pursuits, etc.) to put our bodies and minds in better accord with what evolutionary anthropologists have discovered regarding our deep evolutionary heritage. 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