ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Raymond Dart, Feminist Theory, Sagittal Crest
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Ant214 lecture 2 - non-human prehistoric diets i. e. gorillas have a herbaceous diet, mainly leaves and fruit (herbivores) won"t overexploit a single resource because you have a broader selection. Primate baseline: makes us adaptable, those who are generalized in their diet will survive more, diverse diets frugivores, omnivores insectivores folivores. Last common ancestor: 5-7 million years ago, evolution was not linear, hominid lineage originated in africa and first appearance of homo species = 2. 5 mya. Dietary explanations for change primate -> proto-human -> human foragers -> subsistence farmers -> food industry. Early studies: evolution by natural selection and adaptation, comparative analogy to other animals or people to understand what factors drove not die and (re)produce viable offspring producing offspring, explains new hominid traits. Making weapons required learning and bigger brains. Selective pressure of hunting made us human. Hunting hypothesis (1950s-1970s: social carnivore models, connection between hunting and warfare, period following wwii; understanding the historical roots of violence, opposing evidence.
