ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prefrontal Cortex, Mary Leakey, Falkland Islands
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Anta01 week 6 october 18, 2012. We are trying to figure out the in-between from australopithecine to homo. Darwin & africa: he was pretty sure people evolved and they had evolved in africa, africa because he found that chimps and gorillas were in africa, where as. Orangutans were in asia: they had an interest to find fossils. Europe & piltdown man: was a hoax bone fragment. 7 m below bed ! (2. 1 1. 7 mya) Dear boy (oh5+) tools and animal bones. Beds 1 & 11 homo habilis. In between form of australopithecines and homo erectus. Oh24 twiggy & oh5 dear boy : dear boy has a sagittal crest, twiggy does not have a sagittal crest. Reduced size of back teeth but still capable of dealing with rough foods (nuts) More generalized diet and more human- like. Based on teeth and skull more human like. Larger brains, - 560 650 cc, requiring meat to sustain.
