Studying hominids involves a fourth type of detective, paleoanthropologists. Paleoanthropologists specialize in studying the development and culture of the earliest hominids. (Paleo means âancient. â)
The Enlightenment (the age of Enlightenment) is period in Europe characterized with big intellectual and philosophical movement. The another name that describes this period is the Age of reason. The ideas in the age of reason were focused on like progress, tolerance, liberty, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
Newtonâs calculus and optical theories provided the powerful Enlightenment metaphors for precisely measured change and illumination. There was no single, unified Enlightenment. Instead, it is possible to speak of the French Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment and the English, German, Swiss or American Enlightenment. Individual Enlightenment thinkers often had very different approaches. Locke differed from Hume, Rousseau from Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson from Frederick the Great