ANTA01H3 Lecture 5: ANTA01 Lecture 5.docx
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Hominini: group that includes all those species more closely related to homo sapiens than to any living great ape. Larger than you would except for something of our body size: anatomical features associated with bipedalism (walking on two limbs), very small canines. Not too potruding for humans: relatively flat faces (orthognathic). Chimpanzees have upper jaws that stick out (prognathic: ability to modify raw materials into recognizable tool types. Non human primates don t make recognizable tool types. No stone tools that you can classify: chin. Have an actual mass of bone there, unlike non human primnates: ability to both learn and invent language. In 1908, the first group of fossils that seemed to be relevant to testing hypothesis in piltdown. Sir arthur smith woodward, pierre teildhard de chardin went back to pilktdown and found fragments of fossils. They reconstructed the fossil fragments and found an ape like jaw, but had a human like brain.
