I found Human origins by Carl Zimmer to be quite interesting. It’s weird to think about how far the human race has come. We started with nothing but the materials we could find in our environment now I’m typing this homework from home on a computer when my television is on commercials. Ha ha try to explain that one to Homo ergaster. Though the reading was interesting I found it hard for me to remember the names and eras of these early hominids. Then just the other day I was thinking that we will probably never get the real answer about where we came from with the huge increase of the world population and urban sprawl researchers won’t be able to dig up bones when there are housing developments and mini malls covering the land.
Devon DeCamp
Friday, November 6, 2009
Human Origins
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Devon:
ReplyDeleteA little more perhaps (135 words...)
Actually I think there is probably not that much interference between the population growth and the likelihood that we'll find our origin fossils. The rift valley in Africa is not exactly a teeming metropolis. Having a few more people around may mean that things are noticed and reported rather than eroded by rain, wind and flood without anyone even noticing.
What I have difficulty grappling with is the "telescoping" that Dawkins referred to in the "Future of humanity" clip. H. erectus sat around for ovr a million years, the Neanderthals for several hundred thousand. But look around you. How fast have things changed... is it still speeding up?