L48 Anthro 150A Lecture 26: HE 11.04.18
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~ended up being skull of human with jaw of orangutan treated with chemicals to make it look older, broken in parts so it didn"t fit together perfectly, etc. +africa is dark area that couldn"t possibly give rise to humans. ~big brains had to have evolved first missing link would have big human brain, but other elements that were more apelike. ~preconceived notions of europeans get in the way of understanding evolution (europe must be where mankind originated from) ~followed by davidson black who went to asia as well to look for fossils replaced by franz. *eugene dubois (1858 1940) from the netherlands looking for the missing link in asia. *fossil found: lower jaw was very apelike, and cranium was very humanlike. ~can tell that spinal column would have come straight down out of the head instead of sticking out indicates bipedalism (bipedal primate human ancestor) +believe that big brains would have to evolve before bipedalism.
