ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Homo Habilis, Paranthropus Aethiopicus, Milford H. Wolpoff
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Robust: boisei, robustus, aethiopicus (sometimes called p. aethiopicus) 234 247 (up to archaeology and subsistence agriculture) Handy man": 2. 5 1. 8 mya, rel. larger brain. Start of the increased cranial capacity trend: evidence of stone tools. First fossil specimens seen outside of africa: 1. 8-0. 4 mya. Less sexual dimorphism: wide array of tools, bigger brains, homo erectus sites are also in europe, southeast asia and indonesia. Shows the movement of human groups outside of africa. Cooking their food, evidence of burned animal bones and seeds. Homo sapiens: origins and dispersal of anatomically modern homo sapiens. Debates occurring over the patterns of human evolution: replacement model (pp. Modern humans evolve and disperse throughout africa ~ 200 000 ya. ~ 50 000 ya one african population migrated to eurasia and australiasia (genetic drift; founder effect) Replaced local populations (no gene flow: multi-regional model (pp. H. erectus disperses early from africa, ~1. 25 mya. Modern populations arose from ancient, local lineages.