ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Richard Dawkins
28 Oct 2016
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Wood and lonergan"s guide to lumper/ splitter taxonomy is used in this chapter. A relatively new proposed species has been added. Origin of modern" humans anatomically modern humans(amh): humans you wouldn"t recognize as being different. Behaviourally modern humans (bmh): those who engaged in symbolic behaviour (i. e. deliberate burial of the dead) Three hypotheses of origin: out of africa, rst sapiens developed anagenetically from earlier homo species in africa. !1: the evidence comes from non-recombinant genes genes that are only passed on from the parents, sharing non-recombinant genetic pattern means sharing an ancestor. Organelles outside the nucleus that convert sugars into energy, found in animals and plants (but he has it down as only animals) Mtdna can be used to track evolution. Everyone who possesses a certain suite of mutations. There are 16 500 base pairs so mtdna is easier to sample and study.
