ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mousterian, Shanidar Cave, Middle Paleolithic
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Lecture 11 - premodern humans, h. heidelbergenis, neanderthals. March 4, 2013: homo erectus to premodern humans, overview, time and place: homo erectus biologically and evolutionarily evolved rapidly while dispersing quickly from africa. But it was a gradual process to evolve into. There was one or more transitional species in this time period, called premoderns. The earliest if homo heidelbergenis, who is an ancestor for homo erectus and homo sapiens. They overlapped with homo erectus, but not as much in africa, Europe or the middle east where premoderns tend to replace homo erectus due to competition. There was a lot of overlap in east asia. Homo heidelbergenis transitioned away from homo erectus around 600,000ya: the increased trend was that as more species of heidelbergenis came to be, they looked more similar. There were distinctive population traits in different regions, but overall there were enough similarities to be called one species: know the chart on page 263.
