ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Foramen Magnum, Hominini, Body Hair

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nancy Barrickman

Document Summary

All the fossils from the split between the common ancestor of chimps and humans until today. Mosaic change, small changes made overtime, part by part, not a sudden change. First we became bipedal, before this point we were not bipedal. Our diet changed, canines decreased in size (behaviour/social change) We ate more meat, this was not shown in our teeth, and we used tools for cooking, gained agriculture. We have a heavy reliance on culture, chimps do not have a reliance on culture, and it is our adaptation. No social organization, we have all possible combinations. Believed that the big brain came first, bipedalism came second, and the smaller teeth came after. A bigger brain was the hallmark of humanity, they thought. Humans would think their way towards civilization this way. Bipedalism came first, gradual increase in brain size (my period), giant molars!