ANTHRO 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Luminescence, Dendrochronology, Swiss Army Knife
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Recap: during the pleistocene, a diversity of australopithecus forms and underwent competitive transformation over many hundreds of generations into a diversity of homo forms. Homo erectus homo heidelbergensis < homo neanderthalis and. The story of homo goes through a variety of transition points where we see the brain getting bigger and bigger. Transition to the bigger brain, making the bigger brain as the distinctive characteristic of an entirely new genus (homo) When you get to 700 cc or larger: name it homo. Homo habilis is only found in africa. Critical transition moment where brain size is the leading edge of something important. Europe, africa, asia, indonesia, island of java. Once the brain size increased to that capacity of social cognitive communicative capacity there was no longer a barrier to expansion. Genus becomes a migratory species occupying a variety of bigger environments. New knowledge about relationships is accumulating quickly.
