ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homo Erectus, Neanderthal, Lower Paleolithic

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Opposable thumb confers advantage in manipulating objects and toolmaking. Marked differences in male and female anatomy and temperament. Structure of the shoulder and clavicle (collar-bone) Convergent evolution similar selective forces produce similar adaptive traits. Ex. swimming or life in water for fish. Similar traits arise if species experience similar selective forces and adapt to them in similar ways. Ex. between birds and bats are wings, small size, light bones. Ethnicity belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Homologies similarities they have jointly inherited from a common ancestor. Analogies similarities due to adapting in similar way. Sexual dimorphism pronounced anatomical and behavioral differences btw males and females. Used by gibbons small, arboreal, asiatic apes. Primates fossils and living apes, monkeys, and prosimians (1) grasping have opposable thumbs-a thumb that can touch all the other fingers- and bipedal- Terrestrial primates that live on the ground rather than in the trees.