FSCN 3615 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Woolly Mammoth, Homo Erectus, Hip Bone
22 Feb 2018
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Eating meat prevents deficiencies of certain nutrients. Humans can adapt to nearly all earthly environments. Omnivorous paradox: to maintain health and good physical status, we need to be flexible and maintain variety, but cautious enough to not randomly eat harmful food. People attracted to new foods bu prefer familiar foods. We share 95% of our dna with chimpanzees, chimps have 24 chromosomes, and. Lucy was discovered and dated to be 3. 5 million years ago, 40% complete. May 2017, greece/bulgaria area a new skeleton dating 7. 2 million years ago was including hip bone found. Challenges the belief out of africa theory . Evidence of stone tool making 2. 6 million years ago. Omnivore, consumed more meat, skin, fat, and bone marrow but also. Were able to control fire, hearth: community bugs, grains, nuts, and berries. Cooking: tenderize meat, more safe to eat. Paleolithic period: 2. 5 million to 10,000 years ago. Early paleolithic: tool use, probably survived by gathering and scavenging.
