ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Homo Ergaster, Homo Antecessor, Humerus

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

The tooth row is parallel to each other. Partial tibia(shin bone) a kind of bipedality(hominin characteristics) Mixture of ape like (crest top and back of the skull---ankle points of chewing muscles) human like (valgus knee) Fossilized footprints( bipedal walking)walking type:heel, toe, push. Slight increase in brain volume pedalism similar to afarensis. Large face, huge zygomatics, large skull crests and enormous teeth. Remarkably primitive hominin at such a late date. Contemporaneous with members of the genus homo. Small anterior teeth and large posterior teeth, which are covered in thick enamel www. notesolution. com. 1st fossil member :homo habilis which means handy man. Some researchers suggest that h. habilis is junk taxon and that there may be two or more species of homo by 2. 0million yrs ago. Creature has much larger brain size than australopithecines. Primitive stone tools in the same fossil bed as australopithecines. May represent 2 or more different species (h. rudolfensis & h. habilis) 1st species in genus homo found outside africa.