... ancient ancestors evolution into Homo sapiens as we are seen today. In this essay I will try to explain how each of them are tied together to make anthropology a whole. I will first start with physical anthropology, which "focuses on humans as biological organisms" (Haviland 2003:10). The concerns in this field would be "to reconstruct the ancestry of the human species in ... and why we became the kind of animal we are today."(Haviland 2003: 10). "Another major specialty of physical anthropology is the study of present day human variation"(Haviland 2003: 10). It can be linked to another ...

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... a upright bipedal posture, and existing flexibility at the shoulder, arms, and hands allowed hominids to carry and manipulate objects much more readily. Early hominids began to manipulate the physical world, inventing solutions to the problems of human existence. Instead of foraging, as do most primates, on a more or less individualistic basis for food sources, early hominids ... if not determine, human history. Bibliography Bibliography Burenholt, Dr. Govan. The First Humans - Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C. New York; Harper Collins Publishes. 1993 Haviland, William A. Anthropo...

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