Theories on the Origin of Human

• Creation myth/theory


  Focuses on the biblical and ethnic explanation of the origin of human
• 6 days of Creation


  1. Day and Night

  2. Sky and Sea

  3. Heavenly Bodies

  4. Land and Plants

  5. Birds and Fishes

  6. Man and Animals
• Story of Adam and Eve

  A creation myth from Abrahamic religions which centers on the belief that humanity is a single family descended from a single pair of original ancestors
• Si Malakas at Si Maganda


  A creation myth from the Philippines which focuses on the belief that all human races and social classes begin with a single origin
• Creation myths/theories


  • They are still questionable and uncertain due to lack of evidence aside from what the Bible says
• Catastrophism


  A theory that the Earth had largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived but violent events, possibly worldwide in scope
• Catastrophic events


  • Collision of asteroid with Earth
  • Eruption of volcano (volcanism) - Age of Dinosaur
  • Great Flood - Noah's Time
• Uniformitarianism


  A theory that the Earth changes gradually over long periods of time and rejected the idea that sudden cataclysmic events played any significant role in the formation of the Earth's surface
• Natural selection


  A theory that living organisms transform, change and adapt to their environment in order to survive
• Human evolution


  The process by which humans developed from earlier forms of life
• Early hominins


  • Dryopithecus
• Australopithecus


  • Lucy
• Homo habilis

  • Handy Man
• Homo erectus

  • Peking Man
  • Java Man
• Homo sapiens

  • Wise Man
  • Cro-Magnon
  • Neanderthals
• Stone Ages

  • Paleolithic
  • Mesolithic
  • Neolithic
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• What does it mean to use vivid language in communication?

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