Young Female Homo sapien sapiens eating

You can see in this image, the individual, unlike most other mammals, is not covered in a thick fur. The vellus hair, a soft, downy-like substance occurs instead. As males of the species grow older, they tend to grow in more coarse hair, but females like this will often go without this additional coarse hair. This can be explained via sexual selection, or less commonly, theories about adapting to savanna conditions or the "aquatic ape". The loss of hair over time, as well as other conditions in which an adult form begins to resemble the immature form more readily is referred to as neoteny. Also here we can see the intake of fruits, something shared with their closest ape relatives.

Young Female Homo sapien sapiens eating more

Similar to the last photo, however here we can see a more complex food source in greater detail. This "bread" is composed of grains that are processed into something more palatable and digestible to Homo sapien sapiens.

Behavioral adaptation to food consumption

Here the young female is seeking nourishment. You can see that sometimes individuals of Homo sapien sapiens apply heat beneath their food before consumption. This behavior is conducted as a form of pre-digestion, similar to the multiple-stomach system of ruminants.

Beer Drinking

Consuming fermented grains as a beverage is very popular in this species. It is widely believed that the susceptibility to the enjoyment of ethanol is a physiological adaptation to when the ancestors of the genus Homo were mainly frugivorous. In their search for enough calories the scent of ethanol coming off of an overly ripe fruit would have been irresistible.

Interspecies interaction

Here we see the female interacting with an echinoid individual. The defensive spines and aristotle's lantern mouth appear to be enough of a deterrent, and this female did not consume the otherwise helpless creature.

Interaction with plants

These "humans" are often found relying on plant forms for food and medicine. Here our study has come across an (alas for her) unmature fruiting plant in the jungle.

Clothing

Given the problems inherent with having very little body hair, this, and other photos show how these animals have adapted by adding cloth made of various fibers to their bodies. Here we see a head covering that is very versatile...it can keep off rain, insects, keep in heat, keep the head hair from obscuring vision, and can also be used to clean the mucous membrane of foreign objects in the nasal cavity.

Storage and movement

Our subject here is seen with a device attached to her back side. Here is a way for her to carry with her water, food, cultural objects, more clothing, or anything else she might need, want, or find along the way. Note the quadrupedal posture. Despite an adaptation to traveling on two limbs, this more ancestral mode of transportation is employed when climbing or over rough terrain.

Smile

Importance of the facial features in communication between individuals of the species cannot be underestimated. Here the baring of the teeth and pulling back of the lips shows amusement or good will. As this could be mimicked in false pretense, Homo sapien sapiens individuals are able to carefully take the smallest cues from facial expressions between them and others of their species.

Cultural Adaptations

For whatever reasons there are many cultural behaviors that occur within the social groups of our study female. Here some sort of mud-like substance is being applied to her face by a male. This shows an amount of trust to the other individual, but other than that the adaptive purpose of the practice is unknown.

Adornment and Cultural Behavior

Here the female is using a mixture of posture, finger positioning, facial expression, and cloth adornment to attempt to portray something to the photographer. I was unfortunately unable to discern at the time the meaning, and hoped my photographs would allow for a more detailed study, however there could be many explanations for this complex behavior and further study is required.

Alternative Methods of Moving Through Space

The ability of the female to adapt to her surroundings because of culture and tool use is astounding. Here she moves quite swiftly on a metal and rubber tool that requires a long time and lots of effort to create. It involves materials from heating stone, materials from plants, and the use of energy stores in the form of decayed organisms from a long time ago turned into oil, coal, or natural gas.

Communication

As language and communication are important social aspects of the species, the study female here is employing a tool on a thin paper made from trees in order to either communicate with another individual through time and space at a later date, or possibly to herself. These physical reminders that these apes use can be thought of as greatly attributing to the continued building of Homo sapien sapiens culture.

Here is a further advanced communication method. This is in real time, but over a long distance using physics to her advantage.

The computer

And finally this complex tool in front of the female can communicate in almost any way imaginable on the axes of time, in a physical or audible way, and can be used for a variety of social functions. With this we leave the readers with our view of the advanced social animal, highly adapted to intra-species interactions, but perhaps occasionally at the cost of a reliance on tools in order to survive inter-species and environmental interactions.