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Overview of Early Hominids

suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Arguing Against Genetic Engineering

Even if we ignore the more controversial areas of genetic engineering, areas such as genetic engineering targeting the human...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Species Extinction and Growth of the Human Population

Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Species Known as Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)

softball and has spawned a number of unique names in addition to those noted above. Each fruit from Osage Orange has many fleshy ...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Tutorial on the Dinosaur Age

animal and plant species that have formed the existing ecosystem in terms of the need to learn more about the past. this can then...

Environment and Moral Pluralism

one thing, the variety of the species is one reason there are many different theories; each species could require a different type...

Species and its Nature

that there are actually two different universes which coexist (Plato and the Perfect Universe, 2002). According to Plato, there i...

Illinois' Endangered River Otter Species

successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Endangered Species the Indiana Bat

has the distinction of being classified as the last mammal to be discovered from that area. While the Indiana bat is found all th...

Elephant Ivory and the 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

just one small purchase wont make a noticeable dent in the problem. But of course, when this is multiplied times the number of pe...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

Goodall's First Observations, Mowat's Observing Wolves and Themes of Communication

In five pages communication skills as each of these essays reflect are examined in terms of the animal species featured in each. ...

Visiting South Africa's Cape Town from a Gardener's Perspective

In this paper consisting of five pages the botanic possibilities of this region and their source of fascination for any gardening ...

Hawaiian Island's Monk Seal Endangered Species

longer if action is not taken to try to preserve the remaining few that there are. As of this writing there are only one thousand...

Discussion of Deforestation

Deforestation is discussed in eight pages in terms of global warming, diversity of species, and soil erosion. Eight sources are c...

An Examination of the African Exodus and the Development of the Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the why and where the human species evolved traces its origins to the African continent. The...