New Breed of Humans

New breed of humans

Growing up I never knew there were so many types of homos. Even while in school we were never exposed to the studies of early men, this type of subject was often taboo. Churches were very influential in keeping the study of evolution out of schools. The reason human evolution was not thought in schools was because the two oppositions were science versus religion. The scientific aspect of evolution is that humans evolved from apes, which it was very evident to me from looking at the apes and us there are a lot of similarities. After reading this passage on early humans, it really opened my eyes to facts instead of speculations. Religion refused to believe in the theory of evolution, because it would depict that, since god created humans in his image, that god would be an ape. No one in religion has ever been able to disprove the scientific theory of evolution. The one thing that I found to be different from what I used to believe is the fact that, early humans named Neanderthals, the women gave birth to litters instead of single births, which are really intriguing and puzzling at the same time. After the evolution into Homo erectus, this is when men stood on two feet, which is when single births were starting to be common and litters were not so common anymore. This new evolution allowed the mother to spend more time with the new born and nurture their newborns.
The story of Lucy the female skeletal remains that were found in Africa, her species of homo were called Australopiticus afrensis. This discovery of these skeletal remains was the closest to us physically. The part of the story that surprised me the most was the size of the skeletal remains, the remains was approximately three feet six inches tall, which shows these species were not relatively big in size, compare to current humans. These humans also lived in small communities and developed ways of cultivating grains and the herding of animals, which was essential to their survival.
Reading these articles and seeing these facts only strengthened my earlier beliefs of the theory of evolution. Before I only had speculations and personal opinions now I was able to see actual scientific facts which back up my beliefs. The one thing I wish is for schools to start teaching this subject in the classroom, it is essential for us to teach everyone how life begun, to understand the future we must know our past.