San Jose State University Evolutionary Implications of Homo Habilis Outline

This assignment is an opportunity to replace your grade on the major paper #1: meet the hominid. This assignment (quiz and essay) must be completed by Dec 3, 2020, 11:50pm.

This assignment requires that you complete your work for these steps:

1) Review the material from these sources and take notes:

https://humanorigins.si.edu (Links to an external site.)

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php (Links to an external site.)

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins (Links to an external site.)

https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/human-odyssey (Links to an external site.)

As you browse the information on these websites, take notes using a pen or pencil and paper. Hand written notes can help you summarize the ideas and facts you extract from these sources. Those notes are complete when you have enough information to select a species for the assignment and 3 questions you would like to ask, questions that, if answered, would help us better understand this species.

2) Select a hominid, not the one you used for your original assignment: Meet the Hominid. Go back to step 1 to make more notes about that species.

3) Create a 6-point outline with one sentence per point:
I) introduction (can be written last),
II) summary of the facts known about this hominid,
III) your question #1,
IV) question #2,
V) question #3,
VI) conclusion.
Those 6 points represent the topic sentences for your 6 paragraphs. Adjust your sentences until you are confident that these sentences represent the key ideas of your paper.

Complete the quiz: Meet Another Hominid

Complete the assignment: Write a six-paragraph essay, using the 6 points from your outline in step 3 and your handwritten notes from Step 1. This essay will be evaluated by Turnitin for similarity. Write your essay from your handwritten notes, not directly using the words and content from the sources listed above. If you want to do more research, save and close your essay, get your notes and go back to the sources. Then, close your browser, look at your notes, revise your outline if needed, and open your essay to continue writing.

Submit your essay here.