Introduction: Who am I?

Hello, Welcome! My name is Logan Faircloth and I am currently a senior at Appalachian State University. I am a Biological Anthropology Major graduating in December and hoping to then get into Nursing School. I created this blog for one of my classes called Human Evolution or ANT4320. I will be posting a lot of reflections, my thoughts, and possible notes or informative information regarding our class theme, Human Evolution. I hope you enjoy it!

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Bipedalism

Human Evolution. (n.d.). Retrieved June 04, 2020, from https://humanevolutionb36.weebly.com/ This week in our Human Evolution class we focused a lot on Bipedalism. Bipedalism is a form of locomotion that involves walking on two legs/limbs. Skeletal evidence for bipedalism can be vast, but when trying to apply this evidence to our past ancestor (in order to determine human evolution) it can be hard because we have very few bones that will be found. The main evidence of bipedalism in which I will focus on is the postcranial evidence of spinal curvatures. I chose this specific evidence because I watched a video lecture called “Early Hominin Body Form” by Carol Ward. Ward was talking about spinal curvatures of early hominins vs great apes. In this video, she states that spinal curvatures are distinctive for humans and they not seen in animals such as the chimp. This means that bipedalism could have something to do with our spinal curvatures. Later on, in the lecture, Carol Ward goes ...

Decolonization and Evolutionary Theory

This past week in ANT4320, also called Human Evolution, we were assigned as a class to read three articles. The first one was by Athreya and Ackermann in 2018 called Colonialism Narratives Human Origins Asia Africa. This article focused on the type of theories regarding the human origins (like the out-of-Africa model), but while reading this article one major point stuck out to me. We cannot and will not get the "true origin" model without the incorporation of non-whites (this includes Africans, Asians, Whites, and any other "race" that exists). This reminds me of a topic discussed in one of my classes last semester called Cultural Anthropology. In this class during our ethnographer discussions, we discussed that an anthropologist must get the native's point of view along with his own point of view in order to "correctly" interpret a culture. How is this not the same when it comes to trying to find the human origin? The second article, It Is ...

What If Two Hominin Species Met Each Other? (A Fictional Story)

I just have gotten back from school not even fully in the door yet when I realized I had forgotten my cell phone in the lab. So of course, I run back to my car and speed to my lab building to find my phone…it is so weird that I forgot it because normally I can never go anywhere without this thing, it must’ve been the thought of hunger keeping me distracted from grabbing my cell phone. While trying to get back into the lab room because it was locked (just my luck) I noticed something odd going on down the hallway. There was this bulletin board taking about Neanderthals (my teacher's favorite subject) and I swear I am not crazy, but it sounded like some type of noise was coming out of it. It sounded like a dying animal and me trying to rationalize it because I cannot be going crazy around this early in the semester, I chalked it up to hidden speakers. Boy was I wrong! While checking out the bulletin board I started to get cold and it just kept on getting colder and colder and then ne...

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