ANT-1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Body Louse
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Yes, artwork, beads, pendants, feathers, burying the dead. Humans are able to adapt to a wide range of environmental landscapes. Fire, clothes, dwellings, boats, diverse toolkit (grinding stones, projectile points, fish hooks) Genus homo exploration: it"s what we do. Exploring for the past 2 million years. Homo erecrus found in asia as early as 1. 8 mya/ Homo erectus in europe by 1. 2 mya (atapuerca) New protein analyses demonstrate neanderthals made these tools. Neanderthals found in near east and europe. Recent research suggests this is not a cold weather adaptation in modern humans (but for neanderthals?) Highly specialized blood sucking parasites that live on a single host species. Each of our ape relatives host one louse species, but humans host three different types of lice. Predates split with lca roughly 6 mya. Evolved around 100,000 ya from head lice. Two main theories for how modern humans ended up outside africa.
