Anthropology 2226A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homo Ergaster, Prognathism, Insular Dwarfism
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Only study the hominins that are mentioned in the lecture. Nov 26 - archaic and modern homo sapiens, steckley 8 and 9. Dec 3 - human adaptability, ethics and applied bioanthropology, steckley. Concepts may inform what you do but it is really beyond midterm. Non-human primates, hominins and some on living populations. www. boneclones. net/portal. php. It is ok on the exam to count ardipithecus kaddaba/ ramidus as just ramidus. Chrildrens bones have not stopped growing and have not ossified so they are less likely to preserve as long as fossils. Cannot tell the sex of those who have not hit puberty so how can be girl. Xray of teeth were small so guessed female but is not a tried and true method of sexing. We don"t know if older species grew at the same rate as us so it is based on the aging of us and/or apes but we don"t really know. Taung baby is africanus but topeka baby is afarensis.