ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Australopithecus
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Early homo tools and brains: development of language lead to culture. Time line: miocene- a lot of different ages, robust-1 in south africa and numerous in east africa, all are bipedal, pleistocene=great ice age 2. 5 mya, early homo habilis same time as. Left 20 million years ago: gradual cooling, in africa getting dryer, right: yellow=ice 2 million rapid change, plants and animals deal with constant punctuated equilibrium. Asian, european or african origins: darwin and africa: believed that human descent was from africa because the number of apes in africa looked more like us, dubois and java man: he saw more similarities in orangutans in indonesia. Middle right: big brain, bone: femur how tall it is , bipedal because the head is big and angle, oldest fossil java man=homo erectus: europe & piltdown man: have same features as human but jaw still ape like. It was a human skull with orangutan jaw.