ANTH 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Body Plan, Paranthropus Robustus, Omnivore
2 Nov 2016
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Fake tool placed looked just like a cricket bat. Everything happening in south africa was ignored because of piltdown. Earliest probable hominins (7-5 mya) known from ancient river and lake margins in kenya, Later hominins (5-1 mya) found elsewhere in east africa and in caves of south africa. 6. 0-7. 0 ma (biostrat); sahel desert of northern chad. Small braincase, with large brow ridges and a sagittal crest. Controversy of if it is hominin or not. Didn"t have femur w/ knee joint--hard to determine if bipedal. The authors claim ardi proves human evolution did not pass through a chimp-like ph. Many think it is a fossil ape, but not a hominin. Long arms, short legs, divergent big toe nya, ethiopia, and e phase. Upper canines not sharp and protruding, do not hone against the lower premolars. Known from a mainly woodland rather than savanna setting. Probably ate fruits, nuts, tubers, insects, small mammals, and birds eggs.
