ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hobbit, Oldowan, Liang Bua
25 Jan 2018
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Open lab with material will be held friday 4-7 leacock 720. H ergaster cooking: (as ash) been recovered from sediments dating to about 1 mya. Wonderwerk site northern cape: burnt bits of animal bones and vegetation. 3(cid:882)m inside the face of the cave meaning they we"re likely not carried in by the occupants. Cooking meat kills bacteria and parasites, and detoxifies some veggies, making them eatable. Takes less energy to digest food when cooked vs. raw. This would of freed up energy for brain development. Encephalization: the increase in brain size, relative to body size. Issue with focus on brain size is it focuses on dimensions of the brain, but not on neural activity or structural complexity. Cerebral cortex: where majority of brain activity comes from. Humans have highly textured brains, allowing for more overall cortical surface. While bipedalism was first major distinction with hominins and apes, long-
