ANTH 1001 : Exam3
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Standard anatomical position: reference point; when skeleton is facing forward, arms by side, and feet forward. Medial/ lateral: imagine drawing a line straight through the middle; medial would be something closer to the midline and lateral would be away form the midline. Proximal/ distal: part closest to skull/ part farthest from skull. Definition: study of human evolution and the fossil record. Three goals: to identify species, to understand the relationship among the fossils with each other but also with modern humans, to gain insight into the behavior of the species. Multidisciplinary: geology, archeology, osteology, zooarcheology: focus on the animals from fossils, taphonomy: what happens to bodies after they die. Bipedality: seems to be the earliest: skull. At the bottom, inferior aspect, of skull and more centrally located in humans, so its right on top of vertebrae. In an ape, it is positioned more posteriorly than in a bipedal: skeletal adaptations for bipedality.
