HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paleolithic, Stone Age, Light Skin
23 Nov 2017
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Paleolithic is the stone age. (old stone age) Ancient is the time where the great civilizations flourished. Classical is flowering of civilization even greater. Europe went through decline but other parts of the world grew. Modern is when most tremendous changes took place in modern society. All humans today have migrated and went to middle east and india. The term hominid refers specifically to the later ones. Early proto humans, homo-eructs are the first to migrate out of africa. 2 theories of what happened to neanderthal: either wiped out by homo-sapiens yet now being said that they bred with them and we today are a hybrid of the 2 branches. Most differences in race are found in the environment around them in different parts of the world. White skin is only about 10,000 years old. During the ice age, the worlds water builds to ice. Land bridge appeared and you could walk to other countries through the ocean.
