ANTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ardi, Koobi Fora, Archaic Humans
21 Nov 2016
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Engel"s work was speculative, was not working off much evidence at the time. For engels and marx, the central feature distinguishing human beings from other species is labor. Bipedalism came first, freed hands before tools and brain size. The labour theory of culture: a reexamination of engels"s theory of human origins. Frederick engels: the part played by labor in the transition from ape to. Model: erect posture - bipedalism - frees hands - tools - selection pressures - more dexterous hands (both organs & products of social labor (def. Unique behavior of human labor in dialectical articulation with our brain created humans beings. Creative intelligence expressed in projective consciousness tool production and tool tradition (culture) Darwin - origin of species (1859) & descent of man (1871) Human skull and orangutan (black and white, bad fit) Plio-pleistocene epoch hominins (humans and their ancestors) Pleistocene environment (6-5 millions years ago) ice age by 3 mya decline of forests & expanding savannas.
