ANT 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Neanderthal, Atapuerca Mountains, Homo Erectus
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04/08/2014 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Similar in body plan to australopiths, but with a bigger brain and smaller chewing complex (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Found in tanzania, kenya, ethiopia, malawi, south africa. First discovered by the leakey"s at olduvai gorge, tanzania in 1960 (cid:1) Named handy man and thought to be the first stone tool user until: ghari came alone (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Oh 7 type specimen from olduvai gorge, 1. 75 mya. Larger brain (631 cc mean across the species) and less prognathic than the australopiths (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Best behavioral dividing line between homo and australopithecines (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) 1972 by richard leakey in koobi fora, kenya east side of lake. Larger brain (775 cc: rudolfensis vs. h. habilis. Both originated ~ 2 mya: rudolfensis brain size much larger.
