ANTH 1120 Lecture 3: Anthropology Notes lecture 3- sept. 18(1).docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Sarah Gibbons

Document Summary

Remember: uncertainties remain, particularly when we go further back in time, some species are relatively well represented in terms of fossils some, not so much. : remember that different complexes in organisms have independent. Mosaic evolution evolutionary histories and have changed at different time/rates in fossil record (p. 20: changes in dental morphology, bipedalism and the brain didn"t happen all at the same rate (not all happening together) Laetoli footprints 3. 7 mya in east africa: seeing the footprints (not just the bones) helped with understanding gait (the way we move, changes in the pelvis help ensure staying upright, pelvis shape, muscles, centre of mass. The foramen magnum: cranium: location of foramen magnum, foramen magnum: hole at the base of the skull where the spinal cord meets with the brain, more forward in bipedal creatures. Bipedalism: postcranial remains: evidence of bipedalism in the lower limbs (knee, leg, bones, hips, see pages 163-164, table 8. 1 for details.