ANT 3586 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homo Habilis, Bipedalism, Brain Size
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Example of sex size dimorphism male gorillas and orangs weigh 2x as much as females. Primate life spans shortest to longest lemur, macaque, gibbon, chimp, human. African variety of ape before split of hominoids 30 mya. Primarily tree dweller (moved on ground to forage) Around when e. african forests were drying out. Split from great apes of africa 5-7 mya. First principe hominid (bipedal, 450 cc brain) types of australopithecus. A. robustus and a. bosei (lived contemporaneously w/ early homo. competition likely existed! homo habilis. 650 cc brain (slightly larger than primates, not much bigger than baboons) First to have controlled fire and had art. Migrated out of africa (peking man) and europe. Who was first to show sexual dimorphism: ergaster homo sapiens. Came into contact w/ homo erectus (could not have mated) Buried their dead who is the only creature known to bury their dead? homo sapiens. An early species of human in western europe.
