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.
Definition of enlightenment for English Language Learners. : 1  the state of having knowledge or understanding : the act of giving someone knowledge or understanding. 2  the Enlightenment : a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion.