ANT100Y1 Lecture : Primate 3

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

general patterns of morphology for some key fossil hominins. how evolutionary anthropologists refute human race concepts. what forensic anthropology is and how it relates to applied anthropology. partial tibia provides strong evidence for bipedality. primitive (ape-like) cranial morphology and a derived (human-like) postcranial morphology. ethiopia (hadar, omo, and fejej) and tanzania (laetoli). complex morphology exhibiting some ape-like traits (e. g. , sagittal crests) and hominin-like traits. laetoli footprints: 3. 6 mya in laetoli, tanzania, demonstrate that early hominins were bipedal, big toes hardly diverged from the rest of foot, unlike in chimpanzees, gait was heel-strike followed by toe-off; the way modern humans walk. dental features differ from those in a. afarensis. postcranial features similar to those in a. afarensis. large face, huge zygomatics, large skull crests, and enormous teeth. remarkably primitive hominin at such a late date; shows evolution is not linear or positive.