The evolution of man is an area of study that will never fully be understood, however, evidence has been accumulated to allow us to paste together a picture of what happened in the beginning of time. Itallows us to gather an idea of how man progressed to exist in the state in which we see him now. We cansee that the evolution of man was directly influenced by his environment. Man’s intellectual developmentdirectly effected the physical changes that we see. It is apparent through observation that theenvironmental changes also induced some of the physical changes that man underwent. Theseenvironmental changes and seemingly intellectual development slowly refined man’s behavior, as well ashis way of life. We also can see how man develops along with the changes in sophistication of the tools heused. We can observe that the progression of the tools coincide directly with the progression of theevolution of man. As the technology, as simple as it was, slowly became more advanced, we see how theapparent effect that it has on early man’s development and how those advances made, effected the actionsand behavior of man. It is essentially those changes in behavior and lifestyle which lead to man’sevolution. In this paper, I will include some of my observations of the physical development of man fromancient human-like animals to modern day man.At the American Museum of Natural History I observed the exhibit of Lucy. Lucy was found inHadar Ethiopia and is the name given to a fossil skeleton of a hominid who lived over 3.2 million yearsago. Lucy stands as the most complete skeleton known of an early human predecessor. She is known to bepart of the bipedal primate know as Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy was expected to be twenty-five yearsold and roughly four feet tall. What we know about Australopithecus afarensis is that they walked uprightand were able to climb trees. Australopithecus afarensis, like Lucy, h...
