ANTH 1001 Lecture : ANTH 1001 Test 3 Notes Up To Lecture 12-2
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Anything underlined and bolded is needed to know for test 3. **** means bullet point is not needed for test **** Pleistocene 1. 8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago. Explains geographical distribution of early primates: africa was an island continent prior to 19 million years ago. About 19 million years ago, africa contacted southwest asia. Monkeys: phylogeny of oligocene anthropoids: based on dental formulas, propliopithecines may be ancestor of catarrhines, evolutionally divergence between o. w. Monkeys and hominoids had not yet occurred: parapithecines may be ancestor of n. w. About 19 million years ago, arabian plate partly separated from. Africa and contacted south west asia, forming a migratory corridor. Lecture 11-13-14: humans are unique in locomotion among living mammals, which species is earliest hominin, two traits to identify hominin, bipedality, reduced canine size, early hominin fossil sites, information about the sites in. Dated by biostratigraphy and biostratigraphy: fossil site locations. Lake turkana, kenya olduvia gorge, tanzania: species found at fossil sites.
