Monday, March 7, 2016

Monday, March 7, 2016
Today, Geologic Scale timelines were returned and are being counted as a formative grade, with a habits of work grade for Perseverence.
Copy the following notes to page 74  in your journal:

“List 2 adaptations that helped early humans to survive, and then describe how they might have helped an early human survive.”
Adaptation       How it helped survival

Then, on page 75, copy the following notes:
U4Act4: Fossil Humans
Key Question: What do we know about early humans and how they survived?
Primates - a group of mammals that includes humans, apes, monkeys and prosimians.
Hominids - Humans and their human-like ancestors.
Australopithecines - one of the oldest hominids.
Neanderthals - A species of hominid--> Europe and W. Asia from 230,000 YA to 30,000 YA. Now extinct.