ANTH 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anatomically Modern Human, Juramaia, Bipedalism
11 Sep 2018
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Humans: adjective, of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings ("the human body", a human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien. Human diversity: there are about 7. 5 billion humans on the earth today, the phenotypic variations are staggering, yet genetically we are about 99. 5% similar to all other humans. Archaeology of human evolution: archaeology = the study of past human behaviors and activities through their preserved material culture, paleoanthropology = the study of old humans.
