GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paranthropus Robustus, Olduvai Gorge, Homo Habilis
20 Apr 2016
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The holocene: a 12,000 year history of climate change. Write at least a little more than half of the essay for the rough draft. Holocene (0. 012 mya present) overview of the pleistocene (2. 6 0. 012 mya: emergence of first homo sapiens, glacial interglacial cycling, plio-pleistocene boundary (~2. 6 mya) Emergence of taxa before homo genus pilocene vegetation cover model: still in africa, great rift valley, africa. Miocene -> cooling eastern part, primarily tropical forest distribution of early primates. Modern african savannah: zebras, sparse lakes, few trees. Contrast with the miocene epoch (23 5. 3 mya) Contraction of tropical and deciduous forests: pleistocene epoch (2. 6 0. 012 mya) Warmer and wetter conditions retraction of ice sheets and glaciers higher sea levels. Interstadials: periods of warm the origins of humans before genus homo: ardipithecus ramidus. Arboreal adaptations small brain (300 350 cm3: australopithecus afarensis. Africa (kenya) fully bipedal small brain (380 430cm3: laetoli footprints earliest evidence for bipedalism.
