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African Habitat

African Habitat
The pattern of change in the environments of Africa helped to shape the evolution of the hominid lineage. In the late Miocene, the tropical rain forest that once dominated the continent began to give way to savanna and open woodlands. Over the next 10 million years, polar glaciers exerted a profound effect. Cooler temperatures and lower rainfall during glacial periods shrunk the forest into scattered patches, isolating the species within them. The rain forest expanded again in the warmer, wetter periods between glacial advances, bringing together species that evolved in isolation.


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LUCY'S CHILD
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Many African-based Gullah [ GULLAH is a member of a group of Black people inhabiting the sea islands and coastal districts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern ...] words now appear in Standard English “Banana” comes from the Wolof language spoken in Senegal; “voodoo” is traceable to th word for “spirit” in Yoruba. Others may include the names of animals: the zebra, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, mixed terms such as “samba,” “mambo” and “banjo,” and the food and plant names “goober,” meaning peanuts, “yam” and “gumbo,” meaning okra. African compound words were translated, giving English terms like “bad mouth”; “nitty gritty,” it has been claimed, originated as a term for the grit that accumulated in the bilges of slave ships ~ Page 179

The Adventure of English
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