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Human Development
Traces of evolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bipedal | walking on two feet |
| human evolution | a scientific explanation concerning the origin of humanity |
| biome | an area with the same climate (and the plants that survive within that climate) |
| hominid | humans and their closest relatives |
| human migration | when large groups of humans moved due to push or pull factors |
| adaptation | changing to fit a new environment (either the environment or how you deal with it) |
| Homo Erectus | a hominid that walked upright and used stone tools |
| Homo Sapiens | hominids that are closest to modern humans on the evolutionary scale |
| Ardipithicus Ramidus | a tree-climbing hominid from Africa that walked at times |
| proto-language | a simpler form of communication (some theories suggest gestures, melodies, single words, phrases, symbolic thought) |
| phonetic | relating to the sounds that make up a language |