ANTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Anatomically Modern Human, Homo Erectus, Archaic Humans
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Chapter 12: the origins, evolution, and dispersal of modern people. Below the neck, modern humans have relatively more gracile, narrower skeleton. Africa, asia, and europe evolved together, collectively, into modern h. sapiens; emphasizes the importance of gene flow across population boundaries. Late archaic homo sapiens (neanderthals) fossils from western asia and europe (130,000- Upper paleolithic (the most recent part of the old stone age: associated with the culture known as mousterian (the stone tool culture): Includes a complex and distinctive type of flaking called the levallois (a distinctive method of stone tool production: chemical evidence indicates importance of meat in diet, calculus= refers to hardened plaque on teeth; shows neanderthals ate a. Europe, and moved into other areas of the world; evolution started much earlier in. This left small amounts of neanderthal genetic sequences, eventually led to replacement of neanderthals.
