The Heat

The Suns great gift and environment stress that negatively impacts the body during homeostasis. Heat can bring on problems such as dehydration, heat exhaustion, sun burns, skin irritations, and heatstroke. When heat causes the body to over heat from its normal temperature to 104 degrees Fahrenheit, the bodies reaction to the temperature is called a heatstroke.

As a culture we seek cool temperatures or ways to escape heat by sitting in a air conditioned environment or seeking shade wherever it may be.
Sweating is a short term adaption. The body releases perspiration from its pores in order to keep cool/cool itself down.
A developmental adaptation would be the growth of less bodily hair. More hair you have the more heat your body absorbs, the amount of hair a person has contributes to the amount of heat their body as a whole can take.
A facultative adaptation would be the different skin tones. People of African decent have the darkest skin in the world, meaning they absorb the most amount of heat because of their skin tone. They are dark because their ancestors somewhere along the line adapted the increased amount of sunlight as a adaption their skin was molded genetically to be darker than that of any other race on the planet.

The studies of human variation helps us find out how we as human being adapt to certain environmental stresses. Information from these studies are becoming more and more relevant with temps everywhere and the conflict that is global warming.

An example would be Africans. those who are of the race have naturally dark skin because of their ancestors constant exposure to sunlight/UV rays/heat. Environmental influences on adaptations is better because using race could lead to stereotyping and there are people who are full blood related and birthed with different skin tones. For example: My sister is full African American and is mistaken-ed for someone who is white, (not to sound racist) the only way she is identified as African American is in her blood. Races are all connected somewhere along our timeline, however not all races experience the same environmental adaptions or have experienced the same environmental adaptions which gave birth to unique races across the world.

Sign Here

Part 1
 
>Difficult, because I couldn't use words or even describe words I wanted to use to keep the conversation going. I got to "hello" by waving then it got complicated.
>Well I had a conversation with my girlfriend, she was laughing because I was getting frustrate, however it helped that she knew me so the conversation got a little father than hello. She had to say words and I'd shake my head to say yes or no, and that's pretty much how the conversation progressed.
>The culture speaking has the advantage of communicating complex ideas as they would have more communicating vocabulary you could say, but also that doesn't necessarily mean the non speaking culture would understand a single word of it. I call a draw. The speaking culture in my opinion would be short on patience but at the same time could possibly understand the non speaking culture because of the visual signs. Deaf people have a lot of trouble communicating with people who aren't used to interacting with them. People that use signing as a form of communication would have the same trouble as well when communicating with someone who doesn't know sign language.

Part 2

>NO! I lasted about 45 seconds and it was because I was describing something i felt passionate about, I lost focus and then I was done for. I counted something on my fingers. The fact that I was so focused on not using any physical expressions with my body was the most difficult part because I normally make A LOT of facial expressions.
>Well my partner was actually challenging me from the beginning by asking me things I had to do, how much homework I had, and wanted to know what my grade point average would be upon graduating next week, so there was an added challenge.
>This experiment shows how far we've come as a race, communicating and how much we still use the basic forms maybe not the same way but definitely still use basics daily.
>I believe reading body language is something that is picked up/learned as you grow up, and not necessarily something that comes natural, so yes there are people who have trouble reading body language.
>An adaptive benefit of reading body language is being able to see when someone moods change through their facial expression and in a way their spirit. The face is a key to telling how people are feeling, although their are those who can hide behind laughing and smiling when dealing with tough times. For example if someone doesn't want to do something physical or partake in sports they will give minimum effort. An example of a benefit to not reading body language could be when someone clearly depressed or down about a personal issue and is acting unenthusiastically toward a project, a project you've been looking forward to doing and you just keep your positivity up because this project despite their situation is still due the next day. So not being able to tell or read their body language could get you through the project.

Piltdown-Let down.

      The Piltdown  fossil discovery took place and began in the early 1900's in Sussex, England. An unearthed strange piece of skull, passed onto Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist, from a laborer. In 1953, piltdown man was leveled a fake after a few tests and the close observation of a canine tooth. The scientific world was taken by storm. The piltdown man was first revealed as a hoax, it was horrifically embarrassing for the science community as a whole, but even more so by those who built their careers off of its discovery/finding. The scientists involved were Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward.

     A fault such as being so desperate as to forge/ fake a scientific discovery for fame and/or notoriety, because you lack the grit or aren't fortunate enough to discover something of this measure through hard work and persistence. These faults have made a mockery of the world's scientists who fell for such a hoax.

     The positive aspects, well the methods used were quite efficient, the mineral department carried out nitrogen content tests, and Kenneth Oakley applied a chemical test to help authenticate and date fossils, revealing that the fossil was much younger then expected. The skull had been stained and the teeth had been filed down and colored with paint.
    
     It'd be hard for someone to remove the "human" factor because there's a chance of error no matter what, but that comes with the field work and chances of getting it right every time no longer exists which is why we have tests for just about every angle to prove of authenticity. I would not want to remove the human factor its needed, it brings more questions to prove authenticity.

    To be sure for yourself and that seeing isn't necessarily always believing. Sometimes you need to see or read of the cold hard facts from tests and years of research and proof.

Comparative Primates

Lemurs live in the rainforests of Madagascar. Lemurs happen to be adaptive to ecological niches, however most lemurs reside in Madagascar due to the endangerment of their species. The diet of Lemurs vary between the large species being herbivores and the smaller species being omnivores. Living in Madagascar there is a wet season where there will be tons of fruit to feed on and there is a less dry season. During the dry season lemurs consume plants and leaves. Those exact dieting occurrences illustrate the lemurs adaptation to it environment.

Spider Monkeys reside in the upper layers of rainforests of Central and South America, in their built canopies. Spider Monkeys primarily eat fruit but sometimes veer from that diet to eat/consume leaves, flowers, and insects. They feed on fruit from big trees and because they swallow fruit whole, they end up eating the seeds. The lead female is responsible for finding food sources, however if she can't find enough for the group then the group splits to forage and cover more areas in the forests to find food.

Baboons live in the open savannah and hills across Africa. They are omnivores and herbivores. At times they eat insects, fish, hares, birds, and small antelopes. They also forage plants and being located in the Southern part of Africa often prey on sheep and goat being farmed by man. Because of their geographic and environmental surroundings baboons prey on animals and insects within their region and each varies because the competitiveness in the savannah of the other mammals. Baboons feed on smaller animals and even vervet monkeys. unlike other primates baboons dont have access to rainforest food like fruit so when they forage they have to gather things like birds eggs, fish, and or hunt and eat small antelope together.

Gibbon live in tropical and subtropical rainforests ranging from northeast India to Indonesia and even in the Northern China. Gibbons are omnivores, their forging efforts are done during the day. They eat fruit and forage leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, and tender plant shoots. They also eat spiders, insects, birds eggs, and small birds. Because they reside in rainforests percentage of their diet Gibbon forage during the day, however they also take advantage of their ecosystems offerings by feeding on all sorts of food sources.

Chimpanzee or Chimps are able to inhabit drier less densely treed areas but only if they have access to some forest area for food and shelter. Chimps are forests primates. They live in countries in Central Africa ranging from Congo to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania. Chimps are omnivores similar to human beings. They feed on mostly fruit, seeds, nuts, leaves, and flowers. They also eat larger animals and fish termites with a stick. Chimps require water supply and a wide variety of fruits in their habitat, because their diet they able to live in a numerous amount of habitats.

The environment has played a big part in the physical and behavioral qualities of all primates, each varying/ differing from one another. From primates that live in the savannah to primates that dwell in forests, they all have one thing in common their diets have adapted to their habitat and all primates named in this post eat fruit. However they all have different diet balances and needs. Lemurs do not eat as much as Chimps and Chimps don't hunt like baboons and no other primate listed forages as much as spider monkeys. Their behaviors and abilities to hunt vary by physical traits, geographic location, and competition within their ecosystem. The savannah being the most ruthless containing dangerous animals from the cat family such as Lions, Leopards, and hyena.