Early humans evolved over millions of years from hominid ancestors like Lucy. During the Stone Age beginning 3 million years ago, early humans like Homo habilis were hunter-gatherers who used stone tools. The ability to control fire was a major development, allowing humans to cook food and survive in colder climates. Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon man lived in Europe, with Cro-Magnon creating cave paintings of animals and hands, though the purpose remains mysterious. Traces of early human life are revealed through fossils and artifacts.
Human evolution is the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. It is the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. It involves the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, ethology, evolutionary psychology, embryology and genetics. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioural traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Evolutionary Theory
3.0 Process of Evolution
4.0 History of Human Evolution
5.0 Paleoanthropology
6.0 Evidence of Evolution
6.1 Evidence from comparative physiology
6.2 Evidence from comparative anatomy
6.3 Evidence from comparative embryology
6.4 Evidence from comparative morphology
6.5 Evidence from vestigial organs
6.6 Genetics
6.7 Evidence from Molecular Biology
6.8 Evidence from the Fossil Record
7.0 Divergence of the Human Clade from other Great Apes
8.0 Anatomical changes
8.1 Anatomy of bipedalism
8.2 Encephalization
8.3 Sexual dimorphism
8.4 Other changes
9.0 Genus Homo
10.0 Homo Sapiens Taxonomy
Human evolution is the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. It is the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. It involves the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, ethology, evolutionary psychology, embryology and genetics. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioural traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Evolutionary Theory
3.0 Process of Evolution
4.0 History of Human Evolution
5.0 Paleoanthropology
6.0 Evidence of Evolution
6.1 Evidence from comparative physiology
6.2 Evidence from comparative anatomy
6.3 Evidence from comparative embryology
6.4 Evidence from comparative morphology
6.5 Evidence from vestigial organs
6.6 Genetics
6.7 Evidence from Molecular Biology
6.8 Evidence from the Fossil Record
7.0 Divergence of the Human Clade from other Great Apes
8.0 Anatomical changes
8.1 Anatomy of bipedalism
8.2 Encephalization
8.3 Sexual dimorphism
8.4 Other changes
9.0 Genus Homo
10.0 Homo Sapiens Taxonomy
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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3. Optimization of testing processes
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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65 million years ago
Dinosaurs died out about 65 million
years ago. The first human like
hominids did not appear until around
3 million years ago.
Thus, no matter what you may have
seen in the movies, early man did
not live during the same period in
history as dinosaurs!
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3 Million Years Ago
3 million years ago, our planet was
teeming with life!
There were deer, giraffes, hyenas,
sheep, goats, horses, elephants,
camels, beavers, cave lions, ants,
termites, woolly mammoths, saber-
toothed tigers, giant sharks, dogs with
huge teeth, and all kinds of birds and
plants and fish.
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Very Early Humans
It was during this time that the higher
primates, including apes and early man,
first appeared.
Their hands were different, too.
Ape hands were made for climbing
and clinging. Man’s hands were
jointed differently, which allowed
them to make and use tools.
There was a difference between apes
and man. Early human-like hominids
could stand upright. Apes could not.
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Very Early Humans
How do scientists know about an
early man who lived 3 million
years ago?
Lucy told them!
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Lucy
In 1974, a skeleton was found in Africa. The bones were
those of a female, about 20 years old or so when she died.
Scientists named her Lucy. About 3 million years
ago, when Lucy was alive, she was about 4 feet
tall and weighed about 50 pounds. Scientists
suspect that she fell into a lake or river and
drowned.
Scientists are like detectives. They
can tell a great deal from a skeleton,
whether it's one year old or 3 million
years old!
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Fossils & Artifacts
Scientists use many clues to help them put pieces of the past
together. One thing they must know is the difference between a
fossil and an artifact.
Artifacts are remains of things
that were made, not remains of
living things.
Fossils are remains of living things
(plants, animals, people), not things
that were made.
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Handy Man
The Stone Age refers to the materials used
to make man-made tools. In the Stone Age,
man made tools out of stone. “Handy Man”
was one of the first hominids to use stone
tools.
Hunters & Gatherers: The Old Stone Age
people were hunters/gatherers. We know this
because scientists have found fossils and
artifacts, which reveal traces of their life.
These people did not plant crops. They
gathered wild fruits, nuts, berries, and
vegetables.
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Handy Man
These early human-like hominids were
taller and smarter than Lucy’s people,
but they did not know how to make
fire.
When they broke camp, they
probably tried to bring fire with
them by carrying lit branches to
use to start a new campfire.
If their branches went out, they did
without fire until they found
something burning.
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Upright Man
Many years passed. Another group of man was born. Scientists
nicknamed this group “Upright Man”. Upright Man did know
how to make fire.
That changed everything!
People began to cook their food,
which helped to reduce disease.
People collected around the fire each
night, to share stories of the day's
hunt and activities, which helped to
develop a spirit of community.
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Upright Man
These Stone Age people were about the same
size as modern humans. Their tool-making
skills were considerably improved. Their
weapons included stone axes and knives.
Because Upright Man could make fire, he
was free to move about in search of food.
He did not have to worry about freezing.
He made warm clothes from animal skins.
At night, he built a campfire to cook his
food and to stay warm.
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Man Leaves Home
About one million years ago, Upright Man
began to slowly leave Africa. These early
people began to populate the world.
Scientists have found artifacts of their tools
and weapons, which help us to understand
how they lived, where they went, and how
they got there.
They did not need a boat. The Ice Age was
here! They traveled across giant walkways
of frozen ice, over what later would become
vast rivers and seas.
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Neanderthals
One day, scientists found a new skeleton. This skeleton was
from another group of early men. Scientists named this man
Neanderthal man, after the valley in which the skeleton had been
found.
Scientists announced that
these early men were dim-
witted brutes, who walked
with bent knees, with their
heads slung forward on their
big necks. Could these early
people really be our
ancestors?
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Neanderthals
But scientists had made a mistake!
The bones were bent
because they were part
of the skeleton of an old
man suffering from
arthritis! Arthritis is a
disease that bends and
cripples bones.
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Neanderthals
Still, Neanderthals were different from
other species of early humans. They
were tall and smart, and used caves as
their homes. They were great hunters.
Considering how smart they were, and
how advanced for their time, scientists
are puzzled that the Neanderthals were
one of the early species of man to die
out. Many species of man died out in
these early days. But why the
Neanderthals? It is a history mystery.
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Cro-Magnon Man
Another group of early men stood out during this
period. Scientists nicknamed this group “Cro-
Magnon man”.
Cro-Magnon man lived in Europe.
This group did not live a life of constant
struggle for survival because they worked
together to provide food for their tribe.
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Cro-Magnon Man
These Stone Age people learned to cure and store food
for the long winter. They used traps, which allowed them
to catch food while they were busy doing something else.
Fisherman used nets woven from vines and fishhooks.
Some groups built rafts and canoes
to catch bigger fish in deeper waters.
They made clothing and
jewelry. They invented the bow
and arrow.
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Cave Paintings
Cro-Magnon man did something rather unusual. For some
reason, he drew paintings deep inside dark caves, on cave
walls.
His paintings were added to the paintings
already on the cave walls, left by other
Cro-Magnon men.
Over time, a cave
might accumulate hundreds of
paintings. Colors used most
often were brown, yellow/tan,
dark red, and coal black.
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Cave Paintings
Animals were well drawn and filled in with natural colors to
give them even more shape and substance. They drew stick
figures for hunters. They drew stencils of hands.
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Cave Paintings
To reach the deepest part of the cave, where other paintings
could be found, Cro-Magnon man had to crawl through the
maze like tunnels of the cave, holding a spoon-like oil lamp to
light his way, while carrying his carefully prepared paints.
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A Mystery
It was quite dangerous. Cro-Magnon man had no idea if he
might run into a cave lion. He might fall into a hole and die.
There are
many history
mysteries.
This is one of
them.
Why did he do it? Perhaps it was a coming of age
ceremony, or perhaps it served a religious purpose.
Maybe it was a sort of, “I was here.”
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Lascaux France
The existence of cave paintings was discovered by
accident. Around 1940, during World War II, some kids
were playing in a field in Lascaux,
France. They stumbled across a
cave entrance. It had been hidden
by the tree roots. The walls were
covered with cave paintings!
Once people knew the paintings
existed, they looked for more
such caves, and found them.
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Recap
We know about early Stone Age people because
scientists have found fossils and artifacts that reveal
traces of their life.
Man went through many stages
to evolve into the humans of
today! Since this evolution
covers roughly 3 million years,
you might say it took man a
long time to grow up!
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Early Humans
1. What is a hunter-gatherer?
2. What is a Stone Age?
3. Why was the ability to make
fire so important?
4. How could early humans
travel from Africa to Australia
without a boat?
5. What did Cro-Magnon man
paint on cave walls?
6. Why did Cro-Magnon man
paint on cave walls?
Questions
Editor's Notes
Teacher Notes: To avoid being burned, and to avoid having the lamp go out, it had to balanced carefully to hold the burning oil inside the rounded part of the spoon-like oil lamp.
Teacher Notes: Caves with paintings in them have been found in many parts of the world. There are probably more caves to be discovered.
Answers: Someone who gathers food growing wild, and hunts for food. A time in history when tools were made from stone Fire helped people survive. Fire was a source of heat, to stay warm in the Ice Age. Fire let them cook their food, which reduced the incident of disease. The ability to make fire allowed them to live and move about freely, in search of food and shelter, knowing they could relight a fire when needed. It was the Ice Age. They walked. Stick figures of people, well drawn animals, and stencil drawings of human hand prints No one knows. It’s a history mystery. Archaeologists have put many pieces of the past together. But there are many pieces yet to be discovered.