ANT 1 Lecture Notes - Canine Tooth, Hominini, Laetoli
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2/25/14: each of the following is a correct geologic time unit for the present day except: African apes (chimpanzees and gorillas) than to monkeys: chimpanzees, like humans, have developed specific cultural traits within separate populations, hominin fossils have been found in various parts of the world. Much of the evidence for human evolution comes from fossil hominin skull parts (i. e. parts of the cranium or the mandible). Each of the following is true except: indirect evidence for bipedality at about 3. 5 million years ago is preserved in footprints from. 250,000 years old: one significant difference between modern humans and apes is our frequent consumption of meat. There is good evidence that hominins used stone tools to obtain and eat meat. Tying it all together: plesiadapiformes- paleocene (65. 5-55. 8 mya, true primates- eocene (55. 8-34 mya, ancestors of monkeys and apes- late eocene/early oligocene (35-34 mya, differentiation into monkeys and apes- late oligocene/early miocene (28. 5- 16. 4 mya)
