[Anthropology 1020E] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (105 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1020E
• Professor: Dan Jorgensen

Document Summary

All have generally, more derived dentition closer to modern humans: no diastema, etc. Species after 3 m. yrs: robust australopithecine species (2. 2-1. 2 m. yrs old; s and e africa) More massive muscle markings ( robust ) than other species = gracile forms: 5 to 5. 5 ft tall and 90-100 pounds. Real distinction is in large teeth and jaws. Extinct specialized sideline and some classify in a separate genus called. Paranthropus: australopithecus africanus ( gracile variety; < 3-2. 2 m. yrs. ago; s africa & perhaps e) Less muscular forms with body size like afarensis, no sagittal crest, etc. Earliest by 2 m. yrs ago until 1. 6 m. yrs. ago. Overlap in time with australopithecus, particularly robust forms. Are debates but treat as one species here: homo habilis = handy man . Named by louis leakey discoveries in 1950s at olduvai gorge, tanzania. Other important site locality: lake turkana, kenya; richard leakey: knm-er1470. Also: sterkfontein, south africa, again with robust forms.