ANP 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Olduvai Gorge, Mary Leakey, Homo Erectus
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Impose a certain amount of order within the group. Higher-ranking animals have greater access to preferred food items and mating partners than lower-ranking individuals. If the attachment figure is broken or disrupted during the critical two year period, this could mean that the child will suffer irreversible long-term consequences of this maternal deprivation, such as mental/physical retardation and affection less psychopathy. Molar that has five cusps with grooves running between them, forming a y shape. Sites has yielded the most information about early hominin behavior. East african region where louis and mary leaky discovered the australopithecus skeleton (dated 1. 8 million). , - archeologists louis and mary leakey discovered a hominid fossil at olduvai george (a ravine) in northern tanzania. Laetoli east africa, 3. 5 mya, location in tanzania where tracks of autralopithecine footprints were found showing that australopithecines walked upright. The early homo species for which we have the most physical and cultural evidence.