What is the anthroposphere? What does presyncope mean? What does riparian mean? What is Co(NH2)2? What does it mean to autophosphorylate? Explain what is triploblasty. What does Hominina mean? What does Leporidae mean? What does hypercapnia mean? What does Phanerozoic mean? What does hydro...
How does the near universality of the genetic code provide evidence of the common ancestry of all life? Jaws are what type of trait in the gnathostomes? Synapomorphy, homologous, analogous, derived, or ancestral? Some genes are said to be linked. Explain this term, and the implicati...
Hominin, any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens, or human beings. The term is used most often to refer toextinct members of the human lineage, some of which are now quite well known from fos...
How many hominids existed at the time of Homo sapiens? What does 'Australopithecus afarensis' mean? What were the first true primates called? Which hominids lived side by side with prehistoric humans? What is the evolutionary history of primates based on?
What does 'Australopithecus afarensis' mean?Australopithecus afarensis:Australopithecus afarensis was an ancient hominid species that lived in eastern Africa about 3.9-2.9 million years ago. The most famous specimen of the species, Lucy, is largely responsible for revitalizing research into the evolution ...
for informing education. As we move into an era where e-learning blended with face-to-face is the norm in schools, and in many technical education and university programmes, what do we need to know about human learning 100 Millennia ago, and how does it connect to the twenty-first Century...
by 2300 AD. Global mean temperature jumps 6–9 °C above today's average and remains artificially high for much longer than it does in the more moderate scenario, with the warmest part of the broad maximum lasting from 3000 AD to 4000 AD. Atmospheric CO2concentrations and temperatures then ...
Studies show that when we recognize a face as "beautiful" we are actually making a judgement about the health and vitality of that individual. We interpret facial symmetry (the similarity of left and right halves of a face) and the smoothness of the skin to mean that a person has good ge...
Where does the extra money come from? Or maybe he or she has to wait until someone else retires or dies. Still, that shouldn’t take too long. If it’s retirement (presumably on a state pension), more money is still needed, but only until someone else dies. So there needs to be ...
Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe a wide range of neurological disorders that affect muscle movements. We'll explore the different types of cerebral palsy, identify the symptoms, and look at an overview of how the diagnostic process takes place. ...