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.
1. uncountable noun. 1  Enlightenment means the act of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. 2  In Buddhism, enlightenment is a final spiritual state in which everything is understood and there is no more suffering or desire. 3  the act or means of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.