ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, Trinil

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 002
• Professor: Murray

Document Summary

But added greater amount of meat into the diet. Tools and brains gave it more options. Enabled consumption of a a range of new foods (bone marrow, brain full of fat) Extra energy may have further enabled brain expansion. Greatest strength was increased dietary versatility or flexibility. Genus homo may have evolved to deal with a patchy, variable, changing environment. Increase in size, decrease in length, and increase in length. Skull looks more like a football, and ours is more basketball shape Spread of homo erectus, the hobbits (h. floesiensis), new discovery of h. nailed, ** homo erectus was the 1st hominin to leave africa. Eugene dubois discovered the 1st homo erectus in indonesia. Amazingly complete h. erectus skeleton discovered in 1984 in kenya by: leakey. Died around 8-9 years old, but he was already 5"3 ft tall = 6ft adult. Lone legs, narrow hips and shoulders, short arms. Brain about 900 cc (twice size of chimps)