ANTHRO 100 Lecture Notes - Zhoukoudian, Late Pleistocene, Tsodilo
2 Nov 2013
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*made huts/maybe started moving into caves all to protect their fires/changes settlement patterns. Human mouth opens as wide as chimp mouth. Human mouth holds about 2/3 as much as chimps mouth. Human molars are the smallest/body weight of all primates. Human jaw muscles are the smallest/body site of primates. Human stomach is 1/3 the size/body weight of mammals. Human guys (stomach and intestines) are about 60% of primates. Humans are predators whose natural instinct is to kill with a weapon. Biological reductionism cause of human cultural variation can be reduced to human biological variation. Criticism: logical, fuzzy definitions, constants do not explain variables, biological, what is the pathway from dna to behavioral trait, evolutionary empirical, evaluate theories with data. Second site where homo erectus were found (near beijing). Now a unesco world heritage site with a small museum protecting the caves. Twenty-five of these where they were originally found.
