ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paranthropus Boisei, Australopithecus Afarensis, Canine Tooth

• School: Buffalo State College
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 100
• Professor: lauralevon

Document Summary

In preparation for this lab, review the lecture notes, appropriate chapter in the conroy text, and pages 282-324 i the photographic atlas. This lab focuses on some of the earliest hominin fossils. The main objectives will be to observe cranial, dental, and skeletal morphological features in these specimens that will provide background for assessing the evolutionary history of the human family. The lab format consists of a number of lab demonstrations specifically designed to illustrate some of the important cranial, dental, and postcranial variation present in these fossils. Several different genera and many new species of these early hominins are now known. This lab will concentrate on some of the most primitive australopithecine species (a. afarensis) as well as later, robust and gracile varieties and the earliest members of the genus, homo. Leaving aside many of the recently discovered fossils (e. g. , ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithencs anamensis, australopithencs garhi, a. bahrelghazali, orrorin tugenensis,