ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Foramen Magnum, Diastema, Postorbital Bar
17 Nov 2017
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Work showed that they are very di erent from early fossils di erent snout, no postorbital bar, smaller brains, large incisors still had some features of primates. De nition of primates can include things that don"t look like primates at all. 500lbs? around lil the last few hundred years south africa. Dart: read books all day, sick as a child, incredible student, went to med school in. Nov 20-something, 1953: studied skull, knew at least it was a big ape. Called this australopithecus africanus features: foramen magnum, teeth, skull shape, nose. Tauns, innate sulcus believed it was early human/hominin: had human-like features, diastemata, key. Did not do as much work with evolution. Fossils usually destroyed in re kilm (told them stop accidentally doing that, so they found more fossils, this one bigger than the one found earlier) Found better parts of the skull, thomas skull.
