ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Exaptation, Hominini, Quadrupedalism
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We are the only remaining species of left of homins. *hominin"s- bipedal primate (means walking on two feet) bipedalism. Chimpanzees don"t have tails but they are knuckle walkers they are close relatives to us. Fossils found in chad known as sahel, east africa and south. Bipedal primate you can tell partially from the skull and the pelvic bones. Hominin feet are not like chip feet) their feet look like hands for climbing purposes. A. anamnesis body size/ africanus and afarensis 1. 5 meters. Lucy cranial capacity 450-550 cc range, almost the same as a chimpanzee. Homo habilis *means handy man named by lewis leaky. Cranial capacity- 465-560 cc being compared to homo habilis. Lime stone based so they cannot date it. Influenced by the shifting the mode of locomotion from. Homo habilis increase in cranial capacity 400 cc chimpanzee. It begins with homo habilis with bigger cranial capacity the tool user. #2 shift in the position of the foramen magnum.
