Enrique Granados

Human Evolution

Ardipitecus Ramidus                                                                                                                                                                     This is the oldest hominid found so far, he shows some physical adaptations for the jungle, many theories say that weather changed and predators forced Ardipitecus Ramidus out of the jungle. Ramidus learned friendship in order to protect each other helping to form societies because they were not adapted to live in the plains. He was an herbivore, and his physiology was designed to eat fruits and soft things. He was not design to eat meat. And food is scarce in the plains. He was structurally too slow to convert to a plain's predator. Birth rate began to decline dramatically so birth increases would require major physical changes to adapt for new kinds of food available in the plains. Now living in the plains the children were more exposed to the dangers that never faced in the forest or the jungle. Therefore the women had to spend more time caring their children and the males needed to take more care of the shores than before. Without the protection of the trees, the tribe needed a shelter from weather and predators and the customs had to change for the sake of survival. Most remains found are skull pieces dating 5.8 million years. There is no solid evidence that he was bipedal                                                                                                                                                                

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