ENV 3120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homo Rudolfensis, Neanderthal, Homo Habilis

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Reduced, but still had a big brow bone. Art and music hominins bipedal apes with reduced canine teeth, probably still can climb trees because big toe is spread father out. Homo neanderthalensis people that were strongly adapted for life in cold climates along the fringes of the ice-age tundra from spain to central asia. From chad and known from skull pieces. Shows a puzzling combo of very primitive characteristics with advanced ones such as eyebrow ridges. Enough evidence from hands, legs, and feet to suggest that it spent a lot of its time climbing trees. Teeth suggest that they were foragers and collectors eating tough fibrous materials. "the hobbit" 18,000 ya, found on the island of flores. Average height of people was 3. 3 feet. What evidence of bipedal hominins is preserved at laetoli locality? there are footprints. What is wrong with the classic "chimp-to-man" evolutionary graphic? they may have stemmed from the same group but they are not the same.