ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paranthropus Boisei, Homo Habilis, Paranthropus Aethiopicus
9 Aug 2016
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Plio-pleistocene hominins jun 25 anth 2010 modern humans with civilizations. Holocene starts when we develop agriculture (cid:12254) hominin = something that walks on two legs probable hominin = we are not sure, vs. true hominin. Rst true hominins (cid:12254) arrived about 4 million years ago. Theories on hominin evolution continents are di erent tilt of earth"s access is di erent, other solar system changes changes on african continent (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Africa is on about 3 tectonic plates east african rift is continually pulling apart, building mountain range on east side of continent. Energy e ciency hypothesis = we stood up on two legs in order to move from patch of food to patch of food more e ciently, because the foot was more spread out. Postural-feeding hypothesis = had to start reaching up for food and standing up was more e cient.
