[MMW 11] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 36 pages long Study Guide!

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Page Dubois

Document Summary

Earliest life forms 3. 3 billion years ago. All africans, all migrants out of africa, all part of human race as civilization grows, there are gains and losses. Evolution: process by which the different species of the world, its plants and animals, make changes in response to their environment that enable them to survive and increase in numbers: mutations. Humans are a part of this evolutionary change, stretching from microscopic bacteria, to. African apes (2. 5 million years ago), to homo sapiens: we are homo sapiens sapiens. Everything contains carbon 14 which decays into carbon 12: rate of decay is regular, measurable. Can tell age of fossils up to 40,000 years ago. Potassium argon testing: age of non-living objects up to a million years ago. Genetic evolution of human beings can be tracked through mitochondrial. Separates from african ape family 6-7 million years ago. Eastern and southern africa hospitable climates for diverse plant and animal species 10-