Purdue University Migration of Ancestors to African Apes Essay

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essay topic: Where did the last common ancestor of African Apes evolve? / Were the European apes an evolutionary dead end or the ancestors of living African Apes?

Evolutionary dead end (the ancestors of African Apes evolved in Africa): Alba, D. M. (2012). Fossil apes from the Vallès-Penedès basin. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 21(6), 254–269. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21312

Ancestors of living African Apes (the ancestors of African Apes evolved in Eurasia): Begun, D. R., Nargolwalla, M. C., & Kordos, L. (2012). European Miocene Hominids and the Origin of the African Ape and Human Clade. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 21(1), 10–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.20329

Three pages, 12 point type, 1” margins.
This paper will summarize a debate in human evolution research. You will find at least two position papers each arguing a different position. Provide a summary of each position and the evidence supporting it. Make sure to provide your reaction to each argument. Which argument do you find most compelling and why? You should demonstrate your understanding of the material through your original response to the debate.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.