ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homo Sapiens, Turkana Boy, Psoriasis
18 Apr 2018
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Primates have a few commonalities: limbs and locomotion. Multidisciplinary: experts from various scientific disciplines, physical sciences (eg. geology), biological sciences and social sciences, biological anthropology; paleoanthropology, work on human evolution and predominantly study human fossils and excavate human sites. Evidence lies in analyses of fossils of hominin/hominid ancestors (bipedal ancestors of humans) and live in east and south africa. Thermoregulation; there is a better dispersion of body heat. Transition from tropical rainforest to savanna there is evolutionary advantage to bipedalism. Ardipithecus ramidus (~4. 5-4. 2 million years ago mya: also referred to as (cid:498)ardi(cid:499) what are the features, 5-6 million years ago, the ancestors for great apes, very transitional between apes and humans; long arms. Mosaic evolution: evolution or change in some body parts without a simultaneous change in other: ex. Increase in brain size, stone tools, scavenging and hunting in the genus homo gathering, use of fire etc: finally, in living humans, bone tools, art, geographic expansion etc.
