ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Oh 5, Richard Leakey, Laetoli
9 Aug 2016
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Ec due 5pm day of nal paleoanthropology = study of primate fossil record. Mary leakey = leakey"s wife made a lot of headway in our knowledge of hominin fossils zinge - robust astrolopithicine early hominins. History of paleoantrhpology he said asia was more likely for the place where the rst human originated. Darwin wrote a lot of sexual selection even though he is famous for natural selection didn"t have very many fossils at this point ideas emerged pre darwin. 1871 descent of man: selection in relation to sex by charles darwin (cid:12254) (cid:12254) people did not want to believe humans originated in africa. Darwin had hypothesis why we walk on two legs was because we were carrying around tools and in order to carry things we need to walk on two legs. Heckle (german anatomist and zoologist) was a big vocal supporter of darwin"s evolutionary hypothesis, but disagreed about where humans originated from (cid:12254)
