ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cranial Vault, Homo Naledi, Pear-Shaped
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Check old exams for questions on species for this quiz. First hominin species to exist out of africa *** most important fact (as well as homo egaster: homo egaster (african form of homo erectus) First find: eugene dubois, 1891, trinil, java, femur, pithecanthropus erectus. Zhoukoudian, china is most prolific site of all hominins: has over 40 individuals, adult males, females and subadults, over 100,000 artifacts, best collection of 600,000 300,000 yr old hominids ever found. East african homo rectus (homo ergaster: nariokotome, west turkana, wt 15000 (nariokotome boy, 1. 6 mya, boy approx. 12 y. o: statu(cid:396)e (cid:894)5" 3""(cid:895, postcranial similar to modern humans, 880 cc (would probably reach 1000 cc in adult hood) Homo egaster is african version of homo erectus. Inconsistencies in the chronological transition of morphological change s from h. habilis to h. egaster to h. erectus. African specimens: bones thinner, smaller brow ridges. Asian specimens: shorter and stockier, ridges.
