CAS AN 102 Lecture Notes - Arthur Keith
19 Mar 2013
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Middle of africa in the forests, where the current apes are. First hominids found long the eastern edge of africa. Published papers that listed all the commonalities between apes and humans that made them different monkeys that can all be explained by adapting for arm swinging. Makes the most sense for all of them to have descended at once from one common ancestor way back when. The claim is that because it doesn"t look like a chimp at all then we must not have been descended from arm swingers . which also means it must mean that that whole list is convergences. Their evidence was that the arms were still short. But early hominids and humans have much shorter arms too. It looks more like an ape that way then us. Also has long curved finger bones that are much bigger than the foot bones (looks like a micone ape) But the hip bones do see to be arched for walking.
