ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Bipedalism, Simian, Ardipithecus
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Ant 201 - world prehistory: 10 quizzes worth 25, mid term worth 15, assignment 25, final exam 35% Focus of class: refer to slide, human cultural development. 2 themes with regards to human origins : a) hominin evolution: cultural development. The hominin evolution was based upon 10 million years ago present. Hominin means or refers to a bipedal primate which is essentially anything that has two feet for walking. Bipedalism refers to the locomotion on 2 legs. A modern baboon (bipedal) versus a monkey or even a cat that uses all four legs or its legs and hands as a monkey does. Primates from primates to anthropoids to from primates to apes to monkeys from apes to hominins to pongids(great from hominins to sahelanthropus to ardipithecus to. Note: the continent of africa is breaking apart which has created inevitably very deep valleys.
