Pumpkin Spice

     This assignment was extremely interesting because I have never taken into consideration how we as humans communicate on an every day basis. The first part of the assignment, where I could only communicate with gestures was difficult for both my partner and I. We were trying to discuss how to set the table for thanksgiving dinner, yet I could only point to the different table clothes and knives that we had. My partner had to use different tones to ask different questions. We also had to use direct eye contact for every question which almost gave a more human like connection.      My partner was in control of hr entire conversation. My partner initiated and controlled every conversation and question. I answered every question with mainly head nods or pointing. My partner had mere control of the entire conversation. There was no way for me too communicate because I could only use gestures which indicate yes or no answers or pointing to different objects....

In 1912, archaeologist Charles Darwin found a  human- like skull in Piltdown village in Sussex England. This is where he claimed to have found a connection between the human skull and an ape skull. This is because the skull had similar teeth to humans, and a jaw-lie structure similar to apes. The scientific significance would tell us that humans and apes have a connection and possibly derived from the same ancestor. This left many effects on the scientific community. For the most part, the scientific world accepted Scientist Smith Woodward and Charles Darwin began finding more bones and tools in the same area and they claimed that these all belonged to the same animal; however, as scientists began searching for more bones in areas like Asia and Africa in the 1920's and their findings did not match up with Darwin and Woodward's claims. These skulls revealed that the Piltdown Man was actually a piltdown hoax. Skulls that should have derived long after the Piltdown man actually sh...