GEOL 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cro-Magnon, Foramen Magnum, Taung Child
1 Dec 2017
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Geol 107 / geoe 207 -- history of life. His first prediction was quietly ignored by eurocentric scientists, as finds of neanderthal and cro- Magnon humans up to 100,000 years old were made all over europe. His second prediction was warmly embraced and became dogma for the next 50 years. Darwin turned out to be wrong this time. The first find of australopithecines was the taung child from a cave in south africa, reported in. Now have abundant evidence of miocene and pliocene fossil hominins predating our own genus. Homo from more than a dozen separate localities throughout africa: fragmentary miocene remains. The oldest generally accepted hominin is sahelanthropus (miocene, ~6. 5 million years old) from. Known from a single skull that exhibits chimp-like (especially skull and brain capacity) and human- like (especially facial) features. Oval foramen magnum hints that sahelanthropus may have walked upright, but there are no lower bones to confirm this.
