483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chordate, Neocortex, Australopithecus
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Document Summary
Kingdom animalia: eukaryotes, multicellular, heterotrophic (get nutrients by eating, >1. 5 million described species, first appeared 600 mya. Order: primates: forward facing eyes, binocular vision, large brain (esp. apes, prehensile digits, opposable thumbs. Family: hominidae p. 397: species overlapped in time, a possible family tree, family bush , one surviving twig (modern humans) Homo neanderthalensis: 200 000 to 40 000 ya, lived in europe, our closest extinct human relatives, brains as large as h. sapiens, even larger in proportion, buried their dead, dna recovered from a dozen of specimens. Homo sapiens: from 200 000 ya, oldest fossil is in africa, large brain, smaller teeth, at a time of dramatic climate change. Keeping cool: little body hair and the capacity to keep cool through sweating, can lose significant body water before our system is compromised. Are we still evolving: digesting seaweed, arsenic tolerance, urban resistance resistance to infectious disease, sickle cell disease, salt retention tropical populations.