Rodriguez1

Emmanuel Rodriguez
August 5, 2015
Anthro1020
Professor Maughan

1.Hmm Moment: Of the content covered in class, what are you still perplexed about
and why?
What has perplexed me the most is how they domesticated only fourteen
animals for ten thousand years. Why it made me appreciate this is how they capture
animals so that we can live more prosperous. It made me originally think that they
have domesticate most of the animal in the world. Although it would be difficult to
capture the lions and elephants. Elephant are too large to tame and take too long
to grow up which is very perplexing for me.

2.AHA Moment: What specific AHA moment have you had in this course about
human evolution (broadly defined)?
It made me have an AHA moment when I learned that human evolution is the
process of development over thousands of years. In fact, it took millions of years to
become the humans that we are known as today. Becoming human was a gradual
change, we changed from arboreal to bipedal causing us to walk in a unique way
today.

3.Because of your stellar performance in this class, you have been asked to tutor
another biological anthropology student. How would you explain to them how
biological anthropologists view the theory of human evolution? Your explanation
should include specific examples of evidence biological anthropologists view as
supporting the theory of human evolution.
If I were tutoring a student about human evolution I would tell the student
that anthropologists study the life of humans based on evidence that helps them
understand how we came to be. We are able to examine the remains of the skeletal
bones that is discovered in different parts of the world like Africa, Europe, Middle
East, and Asia that proves that Homo sapiens have traveled outside of Africa during
the time of the Ice Age. This helps us know that our ancestors have changed over
thousands of years. This affects how we hunt and survive in todays world. Human
evolution is important because we can understand our human traits that better help
us survive.