Opener 4/3

Predict: Of the list of early hominid (human) adaptations below, put them in order of oldest (first to evolve) to youngest (last to evolve.

Oldest --> Youngest

Smaller Canines, Bipedal, In-line toes, Use of stone tools, Large Brain, Dexterous Fingers, Long Legs, Controlled Fire (cooking)

Opener 4/2

Why do you think it's important to understand how humans and all other life evolved?

Our ideas about other living things and how we treat them are based on our knowledge that we all came from the same single celled organism. If one thinks of human's incorrectly as "more highly evolved" one might tend to treat other living things as beneath them.

Opener 4/1

What is "uniformitarianism" and how did Stanos use it to come to conclusions about how our Earth & Life on it has changed?

Uniformitarianism is the idea that the processes that shaped the Earth long ago are the same ones that are visible on Earth today. This allowed Stanos to use his knowledge of anatomy to make conclusions about how "tongue stones" were actually the remains of shark teeth. Among many other findings, this helped pave the way to understand how life on Earth has changed and Darwin's theory of natural selection.