ANTA01H3 Lecture : Human Antiquity Textbook Notes - Ch. 8

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Chapter 8 the emergence of the human lineage. Charles dawson, 1912 found the missing link in england, piltdown *believed t be earliest human* Bones that had the mandible of an ape and the brain cranial looked similar to human (pretty large) The remains were named eoanthropus dawn man - had an ape like jaw and human braincase. Later discovered to be fake, it was just the cranium of a modern human and jaw of an orangutan. Nationalism, it was greatly regarded that the piltdown man was found on. Helped picture an early ancestor, biggest difference b/w ape and human = human"s big brain. Therefore, realized that the most changed part of our anatomy, was the brain, which would have developed first and had evolved the longest helped conclude that the missing link should be an ape with a big head. Mistake this wrong idea, led to not understanding the australopithecine, due to their bipedalism.

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