Anthropology 4400E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Australopithecus Garhi, Paranthropus, Australopithecus
17 Nov 2017
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Anthro 2226 lecture 11 notes on hominin dental and. Thursday, november 16, 2017 marks ch 11 on making sense of the early diversification of the human lineage . In africa, hominid fossils have been found in two major regions. The rst hominid fossils to be found in africa came from the nation of south africa. Hadar - site where lucy was found. Australopithecus africanus had a broad diet, wasn"t specialized. Australopithecus (paranthropus) robustus feeding ecology based on herbivore. She provided at the time the oldest evidence of bipedalism. No longer oldest but was at the time. Not much taller than chimp but from waist down looked human like. Australopithecus (paranthropus) aethiopicus oldest known robust australopithecus. The black skull has strong coloration due to sediments. Scientists will often derive the name of fossil found to things native to where it was found. E. g. anamensis derives from anem which means lake in turkana.
