Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Taste, Knuckle-Walking, Homo Habilis
23 Apr 2014
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4 mya: homo habilis, h erectus 2mya, h. habilis 1. 5mya, more and more tools, elaborate, art, exodus from africa, no early ancestor forms in americas. 4: only modern human left is homo sapiens sapiens. Non-human primates: they are not mini images of humans. Proven through many species: largely men who were going out in early anthro days, sexual dimorphism males stood out because they"re larger. These were studied more because it was easier to follow them rather than females. Primate traits: human dentition is unspecialized, most primates/ we can eat almost anything, meat, grass, roots. Where as, say a horse has specialized teeth for grass: all share hominid dental formula. 2-1-2-3: each quarter of mouth has 2 canines, 2 incisors, 3 pre-molars, 1 canine, all primates share this, whole primate family started arboreal ( in the trees) Particularly for binocular vision: to see through branches, from tree to tree, brain- huge cerebral hemisphere cortex.
