Evolution of the human?  Where do I start?
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Well I think you should start by using the reasons for human evolution. One of the most acclaimed reasons was the transition to bipedalism (walking on 2 legs) which is thougth to be first started around 3.5 million years ago with "lucy" or australopithecus afarensis. Such a change was obviously gradual and you should try to explain the numerous theories as to why we started to be bipedal. Most known theories are the change of landscape from rainforest to more savanna thus species had to rely on plains for food and could not totally arboreal. Also the search for food and mates over the vast savanna caused a gradual change to the more effiecient bipedal walking. Then you can start to talk about the tool making. You can start by using the chimp's use of a tool then transition through from australopithecus to homo where you can spend more time on species like homo erectus and homo sapiens neanderthalensis and his tool making skills. This may have been one of the sole reasons for our evolution as it classifies the need for food. Thus more effiecient species evolved and were selected for based on his cleverness to survive and eventually led to brain enlargening and the advent us, homo sapiens sapiens. So use the tool eras....olodowan, mousterian etc and classify periods and species and you're on track!!!!
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if you are looking something about tectonic... you will find interesting these sites:\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html\n\nbut if you want to read about evolutio on Earth... this link is really good:\nhttp://evolution.berkeley.edu/
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Neither were the first to be born.  Humans came from a large group of primates that evovled into humans, so there was never just one human to begin with.  Religion gives an oversimplified explanation of where humans came from with no evidence other than stories that were written thousands of years ago to prove their point.
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Humans are designed to evolve; spiritualy, mentaly, and physicaly. Evolution takes place every generation and we are growing at a rapid rate.\nHere's an annalogy, a different type of being see's an infant human, and an infant hippo next to each other. The hippo can walk and defend itself right after birth, where as the infant human can do nothing but sit, cry, and roll around. It's obvious which would be "smarter" in the current state. Looking outside the "box of time" the human will grow to be smarted than a hippo in many ways when it reaches maturity because it evolves with time... hope i could help you feel better about everything, i feel like you've had a hard time lately... things will get better, just remember that.
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Post an addendum to your question - you don't need a whole new question.\n\nLeoin is obviously blissfully unaware (or more likely doesn't want to hear) that man and ape SHARED a common ancestor and evolution is based on branches not strength lines.\n\nOne more bit of amateur science to try to bolster an obviously wavering faith.
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I think the author is trying to get across the idea that there was no big leap from our non-human ancestors to modern humans.  You can look at modern humans, and recognize them as modern humans, but if you look at our ancestors, say, 2 million years ago, you would not call them modern humans.  In between are a bunch of different hominid species, which, as you move closer and closer to us, look more and more human.  But there is no bright line, no point at which you can say "Ah, that population is defiantely the first population of humans".
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Evolution...hands down\nthere may be a god but there is still evolution\njust look at viruses...adapting to be more effective\nsame goes for animals...but longer time periods\nand we have a skull record that takes humans to these lemur things....
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One word, Science.  Evolution explains man and listen to Stephen Hawkings some time and the rest will be explained.
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Great stuff going on right now having to do with developmental genes (like Hox genes).  You may know this as "Evo Devo" or evolutionary developmental biology.\n\nCheck out the book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful," by Sean Carroll.  He also gives ideas for research and new fields, lots of peer-reviewed papers.\n\nI just read it this Fall, it was great.
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Come on, you've got to do SOME leg work here.  Those are huge subject areas.  Where would we start?\n\nOK, Darwin: Natural selection acts on random variation.\n\nLamark: Acquired characteristics can be passed on to the next generation.
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I don't consider technology the new evolution.  I see it more as the only evolution, at least since the beginning of recorded history.  Since the beginning of recorded history has human anatomy adapted to improve quality of life, or increase the rate of survival?  No.  Technology is the only thing that has provided those things.\n\nIn another light, technology may be the only human evolution, but it is also approaching a point where it can realistically be discussed in terms of it having its own evolution.  A point where it is no longer an aid to human functioning but instead begins replacing human functioning.  Just as mammals eventually replaced the dinosaurs, ala The Matrix, Terminator, etc.
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http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB928_1.html\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB928.html\n\nSome brief information there. More explained in Origin of Species for example.
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man and monkey evolved from a common ancestor
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You have to look at evolution as a series of slight beneficial changes that are passed down through generations.  The steps from single to double circ are unknown to me, but it is more than a single big jump.
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Adaptation? Evolution?
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Far too huge a subject to get into here, check the link for information.\n\nJust to clear up one common misconception: Man did not evolve from monkeys.  Men, the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans), and monkeys all evolved from common ancestors millions of years ago.  Men and monkeys diverged more than 10 million years ago, and men and the great apes diverged about 5-8 million years ago.
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You'll mostly have to do your own homework, kid. But I'll give you some hints, you can Google (I'm too lazy, but remember a lot about this topic) to firm up the dates for.\n\nLate 18th century - Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather) begins to forumulate some of the prototypical ideas for evolution in "Zoonomia."\n\nIn 1830s, Darwin reads Malthus' essay about population growth. He realizes that the model Malthus proposes couldn't possibly be applicable, else why hadn't other species overwhelmed the world?\n\nHe publishes "Origin of the Species" in 1859.\n\nWilberforce fires off his rebuttal the next year.\n\nCatholic priest Gregor Mendel wrote ""Experiments on Plant Hybridization" shortly after this, and in doing so provided the one missing piece of the evolutionary puzzle - how heredity worked. Mendel would never know the impact of his work. He died before his work became famous.\n\nRonald Fisher fused the work of Darwin and Mendel into the modern theory of evolution in the early 20th century.\n\nThe Leakeys begin working on evolutionary anthropology in the mid-twentieth century, discovering many early human forms. \n\nWatson and Crick discover the "double helix."