ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthro Nov 3
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Provision: bipedality is based on the idea that the males of the family unit had a social change that correlated with monogamous family units that males provide for the family. See predators, sources of food or resting spots. Energy efficiency ( patchy forest ) : you burn more calories walking bipedal when traveling long distances. It is less costly you save more energy. Some travel 6 to 8 hours a day looking for food. Patchy forest: forests getting smaller causing them to have to travel so long and far. Lumper/splitter debate: if you are a lumber you are inclined to having fewer fossil species and lumbers tend to recognize and emphasis similarity. Splitter: someone who emphasizes the difference and recognize them as major adapations between them are inclined to having many fossil species. pale anthropology. East africa: there are rift valleys and continental plates bumping together, lots of earthquakes,valcanos.
