Language Blog

Part 1.On saturday I decided to visit my older brother and his girlfriend who I haven’t seen for a while, both were there and so I knocked on the door and he answered and I directly sat in the dining room chair. Nevertheless they were both confused by my behavior so I just kept trying to communicate with them without using any symbolic language. Not only was it difficult to communicate, but both of them were getting frustrated because they couldn’t understand what I was doing for 15 minutes. So eventually they communicated with me by simply showing hand gestures, facial expressions and also head movement and kept doing the same but it was still annoying so therefore we couldn’t get a straight answer. What if I were in two different cultures, well it would be easy to know how to write and speak because that is the best communication we have but on the other hand If I were to communicate like I did with my brother and girlfriend there’s no way to understand each other, it will take days to figure it out. In todays society we seen these views as noticeable when we see people who are deaf, blind, handicapped etc. we see this almost everyday and sometimes we do encounter people who cant communicated with us, especially people from other countries who we don’t understand their language at all even though its hard, but we still find ways to communicate such as: sign language, learning a language, drawing pictures and writing words. These are tools to help those who can’t communicate in certain ways.

Part 2.The 15 minutes on this one was just as difficult as the first one in my opinion, while still communicating with my brother and his girlfriend I showed no movement at all, I was posed like a robot without using any gestures or body movement, my goal was to do this for 15 minutes and thats what I did. Talking was normal but acted and sounded boring just like a robot. I was hoping they understand me better but when they saw me just sitting there they automatically taught I was some kind of zombie while trying really hard not to move at all. Both were trying to get the point but they seem very unamused by my talking and prompted me being lame. As I was talking about my summer trip which does have a lot of description they were unable to understand without the movement of my body. Having the trouble of not using no hand signals, non vocal intonation, no head movement or body is just frustrating especially for two people who had a hard time finding my summer story interesting. In today's society "signs" are a great visual aid to understand and record in our minds, it helps those who are not capable of understanding our body languages, because I know there are certain people who cant cope with movement and others who take these actions differently which might insult them if you don't speak and use correct body language. Although these are people who have problems understanding this language but the fact of the benefit is that its very important to learn this way so we all can communicate better, its something we deal with everyday and its crucial but to be in an environment were they don't benefit from reading body language is out of the question.

Piltdown Hoax

1. Being revealed in the early 1900’s in the small English town of Sussex, Mr. Charles Dawson got away with his findings due to the lack validation methods. In reviewing the Piltdown man hoax, it’s easy to understand why the scientific community of the time did not question the authenticity of the findings as there was any other method that could have disputed such discovery. 

2. Through persistent and inquisitive scientists in conjunction of newly developed method of evaluation by chemical absorption, 40 years later the hoax was exposed ridiculing its discovery and embarrassing the British scientific community.

3. By using others methods already available, other known scientist of the time compared the skull size and other parts found in the original pit, which started the suspicion of being of fossils of various apes due to its size and composition and leading a campaign that later exposed the biggest fraud in anthropology’s history.

4. This is a clear case of how a racially motivated and nationalist ideals of a man was able to deceive an entire community whom he represented by proposing a series of elaborate fake fossilized bones and jaws by using commonly available chemicals.

5. At the same time, thanks to skepticism by a few who doubted all along that the proposed “missing link” promoted further investigation, leads to conclude that science overall benefited from this bad experience by allowing extensive research and validation to support the earlier existence of man.

Comparative Primate

A. Trait Comparison  of Primates

Lemurs are particular trait of their social structure where large groups are common. They have adapted very well to the environment where they live, mostly found living in tree tops in the Island of Madagascar where rain forests are predominant.  

Spider Monkeys are found in various parts of the tropial forest in Central and South America where they live in groups. Highly adapted to the environment where their long limbs help them move around the trees where they spend most of the day. Mostly vegetarians. Closely related to the chimpanzees and humans for their behavior trait

Baboons are known for their powerful jaws and sharp teeth. Usually found in large groups in the African Savanna. Distinctive behavior is evident when displaying male dominance during mating seasons where the hierarchic is well-defined.  

Gibbons are very small tropical and they live all over the rainforest of southeast asia, they are know to be worlds greatest acrobats in the world, they are fast and can glide from tree to tree at a rapid speed.






Chimpanzee are found mostly in Africa, they are sorrounded by canopy forest high up in the trees. They are social animals which play around in their society and also very strong jumpy in the dry forest and savannas.


B. All 5 primates diets are:

Lemurs: Love to eat lots of plants and bugs pretty much anything small

Spider Monkeys: Love to eat seeds, fruit, insects etc.

Babbons: Love to eat grass, small antelopes, herbs, tree sap, some flowers etc.

Gibbons: Love to eat only fruit some will eat some insects.

Chimpanzee: Love to eat lots of different plants, fruit and mainly meat if they can find any.

C. Lemurs: are aggressive and fast and they leap on any tree to tree.

     Spider Monkeys: They are fast moving gliding monkeys which run away and hunt their prey fast.

     Babboon's: Are aggressive and also find lowland where there's lots of water and small rockyareas.

     Gibbons: Great acrobats they glide from tree to tree at fast speed.

     Chimpanzee: are aggressive they survive very well to the environment and hunt prey easily.

4. Its a natural selection primates live and some dont survive its whatever comes first, there are many different primates and that have special features. They can do alot of things to get the food they need and many of them can use their talents to get what they want. They will always adapt to big changes in the environments but they will continue to survive if their traits stay the same.

Analogy/Homology

1. For your homologus traits provide the following information 

a. A Cat and a Tiger they're both vertebrates

b. They are both 4-legged species, hunters one being very large and strong and the other very quiet, small and agile with very different characteristics in behavior as the cat can be domesticated and other lives in a wild environment

c. Their common ancestry relates to mammals with 4 legs that evolved to become what they are today.

d
     








2. For your analogous traits provide the following information 

a. A Bird and a Butterfly posses wings

b. Although they're both different species they share a particular trait as both posses wings and can fly.

c  It is quite likely that both their ancestry had the wings as main common trait

d.