ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cave Painting, Upper Paleolithic, Hadza People
28 Oct 2015
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1 humans and other primates: primate order, the group of mammals that includes lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. 2. 1 anatomical adaptation: primate dentition, diet available to arboreal primates requires unspecialized teeth, over time, there is a trend toward economy, with fewer and smaller teeth doing more work. Number of cusps on molars increases: sense organs, decreased dependency on a sense of smell, increased dependency on a sense of sight. 2. 2 adaptation through behavior: arboreal life involved changes in behavior as well as changes in anatomical features. Learned social behavior plays an important role: social behavior is rarely observable in the fossil record, examination of contemporary primate behavior may lead to clues to early primate behavior and to the emergence of human cultural behavior. Living in africa: forced by climatic changes to leave trees. The old stone age, characterized by chipped stone tools.
