MMW 11 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homo Habilis, Estrous Cycle, Acheulean
5 Nov 2016
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Key names and terms for early hominid evolution. Advantages of full bipedalism (chronology, brain size, tool use) ability to walk upright and move on two legs. Humans able to utilize other parts of their body while moving on two legs, allowed free arms and hands for other tasks. Led to bigger brains due to diet change. Began developing bipedalism in response to a changing. Homo habilis (handy human) 2. 8 - 1. 8 mya. skilled with hands, made more prototype. Homo erectus (upright human) 1. 9 mya more sophisticated tools: acheulean (oval and pear-shaped) hand axes, cleavers, scrapers. They use fire and have large settlement (lived in larger groups than previous evolutions), which resulted in development of oral communication (large range of sound). They spread out of africa around 1 mya. Neanderthal, hominids that perform the same activities w/ hs, but belong to a branch of highly developed he, emerged and began to flourish in europe and western asia.
