ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Paleolithic Europe, Spear-Thrower, Paranthropus
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Amh is used to get around all the issue of what exact species we are talking about. Time and place from at least: (figure 12-7) 200, 000 ya in africa: figure 12-1, smaller brow ridges, bigger cranium. 120, 000 ya in near east/west asia: figure 12-3. 40, 000 ya in europe & east asia. 40, 000 or 15, 000 ya in australia to the present. Round skull: some of the older h. sapiens are a little thicker. Pyramidal mastoid process: characteristic of homo sapiens. Speciation process of separation into new species from an ancestral population: often based on initial geographic separation (by mountains, distance, deserts etc. , can"t interbreed no more, genetic drift. Biological species populations that can interbreed with each other and produce fertile offspring: h. neanderthal and h. sapien did produce offspring (since there dna is found in us)
