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Last Class Final Quiz: May 6, in class

Last Class Final Quiz: May 6, in class. News : Detection of extrasolar planet Gliese 581 C, from doppler effect By the ESO 3.6 m telescope The planet is 50% larger than Earth. It is 0.07 AU from star It orbits a small star (M2.5V red dwarf) 1/3 the mass of the Sun

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Last Class Final Quiz: May 6, in class

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  1. Last ClassFinal Quiz: May 6, in class News: Detection of extrasolar planet Gliese 581 C, from doppler effect By the ESO 3.6 m telescope The planet is 50% larger than Earth. It is 0.07 AU from star It orbits a small star (M2.5V red dwarf) 1/3 the mass of the Sun The star emits 1.3% the luminosity of the Sun The planet has a temperature that is 0-40 Celsius Water might be in liquid form at surface.

  2. Evolution of Life To suppose that the eye with all of its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin

  3. Scientific Basis for Evolution:Anthropology & DNA Natural selection (Darwin and Wallace 1858) : traits are inherited, but not perfectly (there are mutations) or changes in the code. Those with advantageous mutations survive and pass these on; others die off. Modern Genetics: Genes are the unit of inheritance, containing segments of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, consisting of chains of nucleotide subunits (Adenosine, Cytosine, Guanosine, and Thymidine), each of which has a phosphate group, a sugar ring and nucleobase. Interesting findings: Human genome has 24 chromozomes with ~3 billion nucleotides. The chimp’s genome is 98.77% identical to the human genome.

  4. Scientific Basis for Evolution:Radioactive Dating Nuclear decay (Beta and alpha decay) changes the number of protons in an element’s identity. Some elements decay rapidly to a new daughter element, others change less rapidly. Carbon dating (1/2 life: 5730 yrs) Potassium/Argon dating (1.25 billion yrs)

  5. Water on Earth’s surface

  6. 2-3 Gyr: Little free oxygen The banded structure is thought to occur from fluctuating densities of bacteria in an ocean. When bacteria blossoms, it creates oxygen and thus chert, which falls to the ocean floor. An oxygen depletion allows for FeO. Banded iron formations occur in sedimentary rocks 2-3 Gyr old. They consist of alternating dark bands (containing FeO) and light bands of chert (silica and Fe2O3). They occur from the deposition of alternately dissolved FeO & chert. Todays oceans contain oxygen, which reacts with ferrous oxide (FeO) to form ferric iron (Fe2O3). This precipitates out of ocean. The formation of FeO sediment is not thus likely. BIFs set an upper limit for the atmospheric oxygen of less than a few percent the present value.

  7. Red beds Earlier than 2 Gyrs ago red beds occur. These form when iron is weathered out of rock in the presence of oxygen. The oxygen needed is less than the present inventory. For several million years BIF and red beds overlap, indicating the presence of low levels of atmospheric oxygen.

  8. The Earliest Life Fossils of layers of calcium carbon sheets with concentric spherical shapes. These limestones date back 3.5 Gyr, with less definitive outcrops dating 3.9 Gyr. They are formed by colonies of cyanobacteria. Chloroplasts are actually cyanobacteria living in plant cells

  9. Precambrian (0.5-3.5 Gyr) Stromatolites, colonies of cyanobacteria, live in Australia today.

  10. History of Atmospheric Oxygen Stromatolites The presence of FeS2 and UO2 set upper limits because oxygen would have produced other oxides from U and Fe vertebrates From Lunine 1999 based on Kastings (1991)

  11. Cambrian Period (505-570 Myr) Rocks 1/2 billion years old differ from early outcrops because they contain multitudes of fossils of various forms of vertebrate marine life like the trilobite.

  12. Ordovician Period (438-505 myr) During the ordovician period, creatures resembling today’s hagfish emerge in the fossils. Rocks formed from fossils of these worm-like creatures can be seen in the Bright Angel formation in the Grand Canyon. A hagfish

  13. Silurian Period The emergence of land-based life – both plants and animals. Fossils of scorpions and millipedes are common in these rocks.

  14. Devonian Period (360-408 Myr) Early sharks and hinge-jawed fish can be found in these rocks.

  15. Carboniferous period(286-360 Myr) Much of today’s coal deposits in North America, Europe and China were formed from the decomposition of flora from this period.

  16. Permian Period (245-286 Myr) Rocks deposited in the Permian period indicate the first presence of reptiles. These include those that are credited as being the progenitors of mammals.

  17. Mesozoic Era Rocks deposited 245-66 million yrs ago contain dinosaur bones as well as the first mammal bones. During this time the giant continent Pangaea is breaking up and the continents are beginning to form.

  18. After the K-T Boundary Rocks deposited later than 66 million years ago indicate a lack of dinosaur bones. The abrupt end to massive dinosaurs is attributed to the impact of a 10 km meteor. This event was perhaps a lucky one from our point of view, since it was followed by the proliferation of mammals.

  19. Cenozoic Era From Gibbons, Science, 295, 1214, (2002)

  20. Most skeletons of the earliest hominids (6-3 million years old) come from Africa. This led to the idea that hominids evolved in Africa and progressed with time to Europe. The oldest hominid bones from Europe are 800,000 yrs old. From Gibbons (2002)

  21. Early Hominids (3-6 million yrs ago) Upright gate: after 4 million years ago Small stature: 4 feet and a bit, 70-110 lbs Small cranial capacity: ~400-500 cc Tools: none discovered Finds: Lucy Michel Brunet digging in 6 million yr old sediment in Chad. Lucy, 3.5 million years old

  22. Homo Erectus (2 – 0.2 million yrs ago) Taller stature: 5-6 feet and a bit, 120-150 lbs Larger cranial capacity: ~ 850-1000 cc Tools: tear drop hand axes Finds: Java man, Peking man

  23. Neanderthal (190-27 thousand yrs ago) Stocky stature: 5 – 5.5 feet Large size to the muscle attachments Large cranial capacity: ~ 1500 cc (exceeds human) DNA analysis: distinct from humans. 600,000 yrs ago - a common ancestor with humans. Finds: La Chapelle-aux-Saints

  24. The marks on Neanderthal bones indicate that the muscle was separated from the bone with stone tools. Cannibalism? Images from Science (2002)

  25. Neanderthals (190,000 – 27,000 yrs ago) Flaked stones that fit in wood handles. Buried their dead with spices and bedding. Built sturdy huts. Made flutes! A flute formed from a femur & 4 remaining holes.

  26. Homo Floresiensis(Ebu Gogo) 1 meter high Lived in Flores until 12,000 yrs ago Upright posture 6 individuals found 380 cc cranial size (like a chimp)

  27. Homo Sapiens (200 thousand yrs ago to present) Stature: ~5.4 f, 5.9 m feet Large cranial capacity: ~ 1300 cc Average weight: 163 f, 190 m Largest man, Leonid Stadnyk, is 8 ft and 5 inches

  28. Could we date back to earlier or later times? No. Two separate scientific studies indicate that our species is 200,00 yrs old.

  29. Homo Sapiens • Modern Anatomy: 200,000 yrs ago Evidence: Dates of fossils Variations in Y chromosome Mitochondrial DNA • Art and complex tools: 50,000 yrs ago • A gene FOXP2 (language & speech) is only 200,000 yrs old. Could such a gene alteration have changed the behavior of Homo Sapiens? (Science 2003)

  30. The shapes & sizes of hominid heads can be seen to evolve with time.

  31. Australopithecus vs. Modern Australopithecus, 4-3 myrs ago Modern human Chimpanzee

  32. Cranial Comparisons Homo Erectus Neanderthal Homo Sapiens

  33. Homo Sapiens200,000 yrs ago Tall stature Cranial capacity: ~1350 cc Art: Cave paintings, Venuses Oldest paintings: Chauvet (32,000 yrs old) Peche Merle (15,000 yrs old) Lascaux (17,000 yrs old)

  34. 77,000 yr old artifact From Blomlos, South Africa

  35. Living quarters Evidence exists for tents that date back ½ million years. One example is the remnants of animal hide draped over wooden pilings found in cave near Nice France. House made of mammoth bones, Mezin Ukraine A 20,000 year abode

  36. First evidence of agriculture occurs in the Fertile Crescent, and date back 10,000 years. From Science

  37. Homo Sapiens have been around for a short time (200,000 yrs), just 0.003% the age of Earth. Evidence: 1) No HS skulls occur in earlier rocks. 2) DNA variation among humans indicate an age of 200,000 years. In comparison, dinosaurs & stramatilites lasted 2% and 78% the lifetime of Earth.

  38. Sociology of Science Public acceptance of evolution 34 counties, 2005 Science vol. 313, pg.765 (2006)

  39. Summary There is evidence for life on Earth for 3.5 billion years. Rock formations indicate that little free oxygen existed in Earth’s early atmosphere. Fossil records combined with radiometric dating of sediments indicates that life evolved slowly (over billions of years) along with the composition of the atmosphere. Human evolution can be traced back ~6-4 million years. Modern humans date back to less than 200,000 years. Lascaux, France

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