ANTHROP 2AN3 Lecture Notes - Gastroenterology, Neanderthal, Hammerstone
11 Jul 2014
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Lucy: australopithecis afraensis 3mya, discovered in hadar 1974, skeletal factors show that she was walking up right, dentton shows she was eating mostly vegetation. Taung juvenile: first pre-molars in the process of eruption, foramen magnum (more centralized, bipedal hominid, rejected darts theory that it was a humans ancestor at the time. In general they were adapted to eat small brittal foods nothing hard or tough. Auralopithecus (paranthropus) robustus: relatively large premolars, molars with thick enamel, ate hard vegetables such as seeds, and possibly meat. Australopithecus (paranthropus) bosei: strong sagittal crest, for the attachment of muscle needed for chewing, strong maxilla regions and deep mandilla regions, molars made for grinding, small anterior teeth in comparison to molars. Informed by study of baboons in kenya: tiger nuts= edible grass bulbs, would have to chew for a long time, enough minerals, vitamins, fatty acids to support brain (provided up to 805 of their calories.
