ANT332H5 Lecture Notes - Nasal Concha, Pongidae, Quadrate Bone
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Branch of anthropology that investigates the biological and geological background of human. Comparing the anatomy of dead or living primates, and doing an analysis based on theirbehaivour. Humans in comparison to other primates: foramen magnum forward, spine is s shaped, pelvis basin shaped, lower limbs elongated, thigh bone angled inward, structural changes in foot. Bipedal locomotion: taphonomy is the biological processes that occur after death (living anatomy into fossil. How do you study primate evolution: comparing anatomy of all the living species of primes, genetic evidence, fossil evidence including taphonomy anatomy, paleoenvironments, geology, dating methods, behaviour and archaeology. Evolutionary systematics: traditional, taxonomy, linnaean system, form and function, phylogenetic systematics, cladistics. When we look at phylogeny, we are trying to decipher evolutionary relationships. Phylogeny is the systematic examination of evolutionary relationships (ancestor/descendent relationships): evolutionary relationships. Evolutionary relationships among a set of organisms or groups of organisms: family tree . Sister groups: two descendants that split from the same node.
