ANTHR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Homo Ergaster, Spontaneous Generation, Occipital Bone
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Increase in height (same or larger height than us) One specimen is a nearly complete skeleton. 1st hominid that we know of that left africa. Earlier hominid that is slightly different than h. sapiens. Left africa and traveled to e. europe, java, mainland china. Left around the same time that they appeared. Thick robust skulls (not like paranthropines, but more robust then us) Occipital torus: bump on the occipital bone. Sagittal keel: a bump on the top of the skull and not a full crest. Brain size = 700-1200cc some specimens cranial capacities" overlap with modern humans. Very orthognathic face for this stage of hominid. Found in 1984 by walker and leakey. Was 5"5 and could have been 6" tall in adulthood. Had spent 4 years in borneo and sumatra and thought that the. Asian apes were more human like so he started looking in asia. He enlisted in the army as a doctor, and used a chain-gang to.
