ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Cave Painting, Zagros Mountains, Sunscreen
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Signs they took care of the elderly, as the old man was to old and had to much damage to continue alone. Showed the neanderthal as a brute, not like modern humans at all. Modern humans evolved from archaic humans in africa first. Milfred wolpoff: sapiens evolved locally, erectus is main predecessor interbreeding. Gunter brauer: h. sapie(cid:374)s evolved first i(cid:374) afri(cid:272)a. Assimilation model mtdna mtdna is that it is found in the mitochondria of cells, not the nucleus. It traces the mother"s line, not the father"s. The morphology of neanderthal"s anterior teeth has been seen as an adaptation to the heavy use of their canines and incisors in processing and chewing food, and the use of their teeth for activities other than feeding. Contemporary human adaptation (climate and altitude, skin color, nutrition) Due to certain climate areas, bodies adapt to the climate and oxygen in the blood increases.
