ANTH 1013 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homo Floresiensis, Ernst Haeckel, Paranthropus
19 May 2017
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Early thinkers: brain size=intelligence but stone tools, human=meat eater not true, ate trees and fruits, brain size expected to appear first and drive evolution but fossil records show bipedalism and tooth size reduction. First extinct hominin species discovered in europe: First reaction to neanderthal discovery: brits didn"t see them as human ancestor (wanted discovery to happen in their own backyard) How did piltdown fit into the expectations of early evolutionary thinkers: they were very racist and wanted hominin ancestors to be of. European decent took the hominin human w/orangutan mandible and labeled it to be hominin ancestor from europe. Caused people to think that all of evolution is made up based on this one lie. Taung child got downplayed by this and proved piltdown wrong. Most people were focused on findings from europe/asia, not africa and believed the brain was too small.
