PPT-COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Our species is called Homo sapiens, or “human, the wise,” reflecting

that our superior thought processes are what distinguish us from other animals The brain is the organ of the human mind but the connection between the brain and the mind was not always known . Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash Ethiopia Tim D White Berhane Asfaw David DeGusta Henry Gilbert Gary D Richards Gen Suwa F Clark H Chapter 1. Prehistory – 2300 B.C.. Lesson 1: Early Humans. Lesson 2: The Neolithic Revolution. Lesson 3: Mesopotamia. Bellringer. Question. What do . archaeology. and . anthropology. ,. and history. By: . Kayla, Karisa, Justen, and Mathew. Introduction. Modern Humans are fascinating people from a past time. They learned how to make fire, clothes, tools, and homes. They would have ceremonies and they would paint. Some people never think of our past as important, but it is very interesting.. To Modern Man. Paleolithic Age. Paleolithic. means . – Old Stone Age. 1. Lucy . – Australopithecus . Afarensis. 1. Lucy . – Australopithecus . Afarensis. Lucy’s group, Australopithecus . Afarensis. 2 million years ago. Bipedal hominids with specialized teeth and expanded brains were walking around East Africa. Some made . artifacts. out of wood, stone, bone, and they used fire. Females played active roles. EVOLUTION OF MAN. HOMO HABILIS . 3 to 1 million years ago. Larger brain than ape. Made simple tools from stone. Found in Eastern and South Africa. Did not migrate. HOMO ERECTUS. 1.6 million years ago. History Club. Lucy. Lucy was the first human ancestor that was primarily made up of bones.. Lucy is 3.5 million years old.. Lucy is 3.5 ft. tall.. Kingdom. : Animalia (Animals). Phylum: Chordata. (Having a spine). Beginnings of Civilization. Big Question: What more than anything shaped the lives of early humans???. Important Words. Prehistory:. Hominid:. Anthropologist:. Paleontologist:. Archaeologist:. Artifact: . Chapter 2. Early Hominids. Hominids. Prehistoric humans. Paleoanthropologists. Anthropologists study human development and culture.. Paleoanthropologists specialize in studying the earliest hominids.. Basic Skills. Take a moment…. “It is not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. It’s all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that. It’s not that they actually live on in us; they are simply lodged there and we cannot get rid of them. I’ve only to pick up a newspaper and I see ghosts gliding between the lines” –. Divergent evolution- starts the same, then the differences add up. Divergent evolution in butterflies. Divergent evolution in butterflies. Human Taxonomy. Starts general, ends specific. Domain . Eukarya. And Race. Problem:. A proverbial Martian anthropologist is given the task of. classifying the great apes. For simplicity these are the human,. chimpanzee, orangutan, and gorilla.. Which is the “odd species out?” . Kingdom Animal. Phylum Chordate. Class Mammal. Order Primates. Family Hominids. Genus Homo. Species Sapiens. Important Vocabulary. Paleoanthropologist. primer (5'-3'). Reverse primer (5'-3'). Dact3. Human. RT. 2. . qPCR. Primer. . Assay. PPH12258B . (. Qiagen. , France). NFKB1. Human. GCAGATGGCCCATACCTTCA. TGCTGGTCCCACATAGTTGC. JNK1. Human. TCTGGTATGATCCTTCTGAAGCA.