BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Oldowan, Speciation, Vitamin A
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Lecture 18 chapter 12 (how humans evolved) Homo heidelbergensis where all modern humans arise from. Used a wide range of approaches to collect extract & hunt for food. This approach to collecting food influenced society and behavior. Early hominins probably lived in fairly large multi-male and multi-female groups. Actual divergence times probably pre-date the oldest fossil. Time of extinction probably post-dates the newest fossil: gives us a minimum age of where it originated and an oldest age of when it went extinct. The pleistocene epoch started 1. 8 mya: involved a cooling trend that started in the miocene. Interglacial: a period in between glacial period: distribution of suitable habitat that is different from what expected in glacial periods. Glacial periods: expansion of desert regions: potential barrier to migration. The holocene: 12,000 years ago to now slide 27. Homo erectus: discovered early on in indonesia, later, found in other parts of east asia. Homo ergaster: parts in south east asia.