Neanderthals College Essays Samples For Students

Movie Review of The Croods

The movie, The Croods (2013), is about a family of Neanderthals who met one Homo sapiens, and they all traveled together to find a better place to live after earthquakes and comet showers destroyed the family’s former abode. Ten things about Neanderthals presented in the movie are enumerated and discussed below.
- In the movie, Neanderthals run very fast over long distances. The opening scene in the movie showed them running very fast in search for food. When they were attacked by a wild animal, all members of the family ran fast. I learned in class that Neanderthals cannot run ...

Despite the orthopedic similarities between human and Neanderthals. Like humans Neanderthals also had arched heels and a large to that was in line with the foot. This physiology among other physical traits makes it possible for humans and Neanderthals to walk bipedal. (meet the relatives). Of course this does not mean that Neanderthals had the same foot shape as humans. What would these differences, if any, mean for the Neanderthals endurance while walking or running? According to “Early humans won at running; Neanderthals won at walking” by Lin Edwards the heels of Neanderthals were taller than modern humans. This ...

Neanderthals interbred with human beings according to scientific studies. However, the Neanderthals became extinct. It is believed that the Neanderthals had the same brain like that of human being. However, Neanderthals were stronger as compared to human beings. Therefore they needed a lot of energy to survive. As competition with human beings for food increased, it is possible that the Neanderthals failed to get access to enough food as required by their bodies. This could have caused the death of the Neanderthals. Therefore even after interbreeding, the characteristics of the Neanderthals could not survive due to the fact that the ...

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Cultural leveling describes how people from different cultures approach each other and try to reach common grounds regarding communication and interaction. This process is evident in Lee’s ethnographic fieldwork. Coming from white society, the researcher exhibited arrogance and considered himself superior, both intellectually and culturally, to the !Kung bushmen. He did this by extending to or cutting off the supply of tobacco from the Bushmen since he was the only source of the commodity in 1000 square miles (Lee). Besides, he neither shared his food with the Bushmen nor participated in their food-gathering activities. For this reason, the ...

Cannibalism was quite common among the early man. The suggested reasons for cannibalism may be to survive starvation especially during the winter seasons or rituals performed by the early man when one of them died. This paper will shed light on prehistoric cannibalism and the disease, which can spread from one person to another because of cannibalism.
Evidence that cannibalism prevailed in early man exists in the modern literature. According to the article written by John Roach, modern man contains genetic markers, which are an indicator that early humans were cannibals. Scientist attributes their discovery of genes protecting against ...

Floresiensis, Denisovans, Neanderthals, and modern Homo sapiens are the four types of hominins. However, modern Homo sapiens are the only species left. There are many contributing factors that lead to the extinction of the three other species 20,000 years ago however I believe the most important aspect that lead to Homo sapiens survival over the others to be diet.
There are slight diet differences between the species that I believe correlate to survival. I think that diet plays a role in the survival of the fittest idea as well. Homo sapiens were the fittest species and survived because ...

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Hominid refers to humans and their closer relatives that existed. The hominid evolution relates mostly to origin of and evolution of human beings. Evolution takes a lengthy process that led to the origin of human from their apelike ancestors. The scientific evidence portrays behavioral traits that indicate the origin of human beings from the apelike ancestors evolving over a long duration of time. Among the major behavioral traits relate to the bipedal nature that human beings developed over a long duration of time approximated as four million years.
Grouping of the known hominine, therefore, falls under the same class. Scientists and ...

Human beings all belong to the species Homo sapiens. However, both Neanderthals and modern humans are most likely the homo heidelbergensis descendants. Homo sapiens are believed to have evolved in Africa nearly 200,000 years ago and gradually migrated north, through the Middle East, to Europe and Asia. A skull 160,000 years old was discovered at the Herto site area of Ethiopia (Anthro.palomar.edu, 2010). Other more advanced transitional forms have been discovered at Laetoli in Tanzania and are 120,000 years old. About 115,000 years ago, some early modern humans (Homo sapiens) ago widened their range to ...

Cannibals are in a class of their own since even most serial killers only kill their victims but do not feed on their flesh. In the past human beings have been feeding on other persons mostly in war in a belief of gaining the power of their enemy or sometimes to just scare their opponents. Cannibalism didn’t start the other day; it’s a thing of the past, but various human beings do for different reasons. Some do it because they are psychopaths, it is a mental disorder, which could be paranoid schizophrenia as in the case of ...

Mutations are unavoidable in human reproduction. In human development, only a few mutations are beneficial. Mutation is determined by the conditions in which a given human is living. In most instances, mutations are believed to improve human survival rates. Environment plays a major role in the elimination of deleterious mutations in the human sphere.
The next mutation in human may be an aquatic man or the ‘superion.' The 'aquatic' man will replace the normal man and will be specifically designed to live in the waters. The main difference between the 'aquatic' man and normal human being is that ...