ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthropology 1001 Unit 3
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If you are walking upright all the time, your head should be located on top: foramen is in about the center of the skull (underneath, humans. If you are walking on four limbs, your head would be sticking out in front of you: foramen is located in the back, ex. Early fossil record: lumper splitter debate, lumper- more inclined to have fewer fossil species, tend to recognize similarities, differences are superficial and, splitter, emphasize the differences, recognize the differences as adaptational. Miocene fossils: sahelanthropus tchadensis, 7 million 6 million years ago, found in central africa- around chad, 1. Geography of this species is very significant: 3. What you see in this fossil is a mix of ape like traits and hominin like traits. Dated to 6-7 myo- makes it the oldest potential hominin: ape- small brain; poc; sot; sagittal crest, hominin- reduced prognathism; reduced canines; position of the foramen magnum (suggestion of bipedality, 4.
