Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hominidae, Stereopsis, Habitat Destruction
13 Oct 2018
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Human beings did not evolve from chimps. Chimps are equally as evolved, they just took a different path. The species before us broke off into two branches; one became human and the other became chimpanzee. Evolution of forest; a new niche for animals to live in. Insect predation and consumption of plant parts. Evolutionary trends observed in ancient primates//life in trees: Reduction in the projection of the face and reliance on the sense of smell. Increasing dependence on sight (developing stereoscopic vision) Also the reduction in the size of teeth, diet generalization. Exploring how natural selection shaped both human and non-human primate. Connecting characteristics of fossils to modern skeletal anatomy. Studying nonhuman primates opens a window into our evolutionary past ancestors. By testing hypotheses about their diet, social behaviour and anatomy we can reconstruct aspects of how extinct primates, including hominins may have behaved. e. how the food you eat affects your evolution.
