ANT100Y1 Lecture : Hominins, Human Variation and Forensic Anthropology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ember

Document Summary

General patterns o morphology for some key fossil hominims. Partial tibia provides strong evidence for bipedalism. Primitive ape-like cranial morphology and a derived (human-like) postcranial morphology. Complex morphology exhibiting ape-like traits (e. g. sagittal crest) and hominin-like traits (valgus traits) Single, sexually dimorphic species or two species. Big toes hardly diverged from the rest of the foot unlike in chimpanzees. Gait was heel-strike followed toe-off the way modern humans walk. Dental features differ from those in a. afrarenisis. Postcranial features similar to those in a. afarenisis. Large face, huge zygomatics, large skull crests and enormous teeth. Remarkably primitive hominin at such a late date. Morphology broadly similar to that seen in a. aethiopicus. Contemporaneous with members of the genus homo. Small anterior teeth and large posterior teeth, which are covered in think enamel. First fossil member of taxon homo habilis, which means handy man .