Spencer S.

 1.  High-altitude conditions are difficult on the human body by definition because air pressure is lower and less oxygen is taken into the body with each breath. The condition is known as "hypoxia," and it results in destabilization of internal body conditions, or homeostasis. Hypoxia damages the brain, muscles, and organs, which need oxygen to work properly. If one has not sufficient of it, people develop such as dizziness, drowsiness, shortness of breath, or confusion. Worse still are high-altitude pulmonary edema (lavage in the lung) or high-altitude cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), which, if not treated, kill. They show themselves in the way that the body is working to deliver enough oxygen to keep processes at a standard rate, and it creates a fatal imbalance within the internal processes of the body. 2.  One of the very first things that your body is going to do when you are traveling to a high altitude is breathe more rapidly. This is a quick adjustment and...

 Piltdown Blog Post Assignment In 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson reported a discovery of fossil remains dating back to an ancient period in a Piltdown village in south English, near Lewes town. Dawson reported that the fossils were of an early human ancestor. He teamed up with British Museum paleontologist of some repute, Arthur Smith Woodward, and then collaborated with a French priest and scientist, Teilhard de Chardin, in excavating more remains. The fossilized remains of the skull included a big human-like cranium with an ape-like jawbone—a uncommon combination that seemed to suggest that the brain evolved early in human evolution. If it were true, it would have placed England alongside...