ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ouranopithecus, Gigantopithecus, Dryopithecus
10 Jun 2020
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Anthropoids: new/old monkeys, apes, and humans ect. exclude strepsirrhine. Reduced snout and nasal region, suggests greater reliance on vision instead of smell. More derived features that puts them closer to us. Fully enclosed, smaller orbits suggesting they were diurnal. Best known, early anthropoids are from the fayum , warm and tropical environment. Lots of apes! (>30 genera, >60 species of apes) Lots of ape species within the genus proconsul. Gigantopithecus: largest ape ever lived, up to 3 meters tall (9. 8 ft) European apes of micene: dryopithecus and ouranopithecus. Most of the sites are in eurasia - little in africa. Trend of global cooling and drying (drying as time goes by) 1st appearance of grasslands, forest breakup, separate. Hominin: our ancestor, our evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives. Hominids (or hominids) include humans and our extinct ancestor (lca) with chimpanzees. Vertebral column, or spine: shift in center of gravity, creating a s shape spine.
