ANT200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ape, East African Rift, Palimpsest
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Part 2 intro: biological classification of humans: Chapter 3: hominins: the members of the human lineage after it split with the chimpanzee lineage, sahelanthropus tchadensis: a possible early member of the hominin lineage. Fossils of the species were discovered in chad in levels dating to 7mya: ardipithecus ramidus: an early species in the hominin lineage. 4. 5mya, is known from fossils discovered in 1992 at the site of aramis in ethiopia: radiation: a period in which there is a rapid increase in the diversity of a single lineage. During the period between 4 million and 2 million years ago, there was a radiation in the hominin lineage: australopithecine: a hominin genus that lived in africa between 4mya and. Further increase in brain size, dispersal out of. Africa: laetoli: location in tanzania where tracks of australopithecine footprints were found, showing that australopithecines walked upright, homo habilis: this hominin is the earliest species to be assigned to the genus.
