ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Foramen Magnum, Paranthropus, Iliac Crest
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Tool making commonly seen in primates (not a unique feature of homo) Standardized tools you can see a recognizable tool through different times o o tools become more and more complex- every generation has a characteristic tool technology associated with the ie: spoon, knife, fork all have specific function. Many primates have culture not just humans. Habitual bipedal locomotion standing up right. Dawson discovered species found a human like scull with an ape like jaw: increased brain capacity of ape = missing link o. Transition from hominoids to hominins is habitual bipedalism: always walk on 2 feet trade mark from the transition at about 5 million years ago, forward foramen magnum. Increased forward shift: spine o, s shape spine wraps around the center of gravity in an upright position o o. Iliac blades wider and shorter; oriented to the side (laterally, bowl shape), in an ape its oriented posteriorly. See farther see prey from longer distance travel long distances.
