Always Evolving

     Language is a very important part of how we communicate with people.Sometimes I think we take for granted our ability to use a spoken language, because it is something that just comes natural. Doing this language exercise ended up being pretty difficult, but also very eye opening. In the first assignment we were supposed to communicate with someone without using any form of spoken language, or any sign language.I found it very difficult to communicate with my partner, and they were the ones trying to make conversation. I tried to use signs and nodding my head to answer but it quickly became a conversation were my partner was just making it short asking mostly yes or no answer questions. My partner was the who was in control the entire conversation, because if I tried to ask something he would have a hard time understanding what I was trying to communicate. I have to admit that by the time the 15 minutes were up we were both pretty frustrated that we couldn't commun...

         In England in the year of 1912 an amateur geologist by the name Charles Dawson claimed that he had discovered the remains of what seemed to be the piece of information needed to prove that humans had evolved from chimpanzees. He had found the fragment of a skull. He then enlisted the help of Arthur Smith Woodward who was the keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum. Together they continued to dig and found a jawbone, set of teeth, and other fragments of bone. These fragments were all believed to be from the same individual. In that same year they announced their findings ar a Geological Society meeting, where their story was accepted. Their story was believed to be credible until about 1949 when people had been showing doubts to the findings and at the time new technology had made it possible for specimens to be dated with more accuracy. It was then that Dr. Kenneth Oakley used fluorine tests and discovered that the remains could not be more tha...