ANTH 2050 : ANTHRO 2050 Exam 1 Chicoine
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Indonesia and africa finding great apes : paleontology: study of extinct species. Skull cap found in germany (1856) brought to school teacher then scientist. They found that it looked human, but was different classified as neanderthal. Our ancestors first became bi-pedal then got big brains. 2. were very intelligent first, then became bi-pedal: 1912- piltdown hoax ; took about 40 years to discard it as a hoax by radiocarbon dating. Lecture 2: fossil record very scant between 10-4 mya, ca. 6 mya = time when hominin lineage diverges from lineage comprising chimpanzees. Louis and mary leakey (and family) survey at olduvai gorge. If these groups are indeed different species, they would have had to live in isolation from one another for hundreds of thousands of years. Lecture outline: first recognizable stone tool industry: the oldowan. 650 cc: when discovered, placed in our genus because of brain size and tool production, related to gracile australopithecines.
