Last time we left off with Ardipithecus ramidus, the first bipedal ape, around 4.4 million years ago. Let’s fast-forward a bit to Ethiopia, 3.3 million years ago, where a 4 foot tall, apelike creature walks the savanna. The Australopithecus afarensis is the most famous species in its genus, known for having one of the mostContinue reading “Australopithecus – before Man”
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Africa’s New Ocean and why humans are a thing
Yesterday there was a news that scientists are now saying that a new ocean is slowly forming in Africa and in a few thousand years Africa will be completely split in half, changing the shape of the world as we know it. The surprise here, though, is not that our ancestral cradle is being cleavedContinue reading “Africa’s New Ocean and why humans are a thing”
Are we naturally violent and bloodthirsty?
Ever since Darwin’s theory that humans evolved from “lesser” beings like monkeys and apes was reluctantly accepted by the scientific community, everyone from archeologists to psychologists have argued about whether we have it in ourselves to be peaceful, or whether or not war is a natural state of humanity. Darwin himself thought that humans wereContinue reading “Are we naturally violent and bloodthirsty?”
Anay Ganesh 