The Community Activity in Critical Thinking through Science was the annual visit from Dr. Anthony Tessandori, from the Bellevue College Anthropology Department. As always, Dr. Tessandori brought along an impressive array of model skulls (which he created on a 3-D printer) to show the evolution of homo sapiens from our ancestors. To their stories, he added observations from his own fossil-hunting travels to Africa.
All of this fit in perfectly with a curriculum unit on the origins of humans, the various types of apes we evolved from, and other species of humans that did not survive to the present day. Among the skull replicas he brought were models from some of the individual ancestors the class had read about, including “Ardi”, who was equally adept at walking on two legs and swinging through trees – and is considered to be the common ancestor between apes and humans.
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Last Updated June 21, 2018