ANTHRBIO 166 Study Guide - Final Guide: Taphonomy, Competitive Exclusion Principle, Gradualism
30 Oct 2014
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6 - 4 mya) forest earliest known hominid: light-bodied creature, lots of time in the trees, inhabited woodland/heavy. 4. 5 - 1. 5 mya) small-bodied, bipedal, small brains moved out into the open savannah during the day very diverse group (see punctuated equilibrium below) Members of genus paranthropus? gracile australopithecines (e. g. , a. africanus 3. 0 2. 5 mya, including taung found by dart in smaller and slighter; presumed ancestral to homo. Homo habilis (2. 0 - 1. 6 mya) (co-existed with a. boisei! in olduvai gorge) possibly ancestral to h. erectus. Found in association with oldowan pebble tools more like australopithecines than h. erectus. 1. 6 0. 3 mya) whole new adaptation: hunting, scavenging, gathering: human economy tall: within modern human range larger brain size (overlaps but on average less than modern); altricial young. Acheulean tools (hand axes and flake tools) out of africa: expanded range to europe and asia (2) replacementtheory (out of africa, eve ), molecular data (mitochondrial.
