ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Turkana Boy, Homo Erectus, Lake Turkana
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From every lecture, there is 3-4 questions on the term test. From this video, there are at least 2 questions on the term test. First apes to walk on 2 legs was about 2 million years ago. Lucy was 3 foot 8 inches tall with brain the size of chimps. Homo erectus tool maker and hunter. Arms got thinner, legs got longer and brains got bigger in the genus homo. Lake turkana, kenya: richard and meave leaky, found a skull fragment of a early human, from size of head can see it was one of the humans, lived over 1 and a half million years ago. A long slow childhood gives us time for our brain to grow and learn things we need to. Turka(cid:374)a (cid:271)oy"s (cid:271)rai(cid:374) (cid:449)as s(cid:373)aller tha(cid:374) ours (cid:271)ut larger tha(cid:374) apes. Brochas area is involved with memory functions and motor aspects of speech.
