Thursday, March 9, 2017


  • physical anthropologists have defined two ancestreal species
  • will answer 2 out of the three topics 
  • post cranial bones 
  • humurus, ribs, vertabrae, radius and ulna, pelvis, tibia and fibula 
  • plicene : 5 million to 2.5 million 
  • savannah enviorment 
  • a savanna is a mixed woodland, grassland ecosystem 
  • savvana's thrive near lake sides 
  • pleistocene 
  • 2.5 million-10000 years ago 
  • homo habalis - handy man is an intermediarie 
  • austrolopithecus - homo habilis - homo erectus 
  • a walk through the human evolution 
  • the reveal fossils have thought scientists tangiingly 
  • bipedalism creates minimum amount of exposure to the sun 
  • the other is the sight line because you can see higher and further 
  • austrolopithecus used pebble tools 
  • bonobos stand up 
  • astrolopithicus is a soutern ape and an eastern ape 
  • can walk bipedaly across grasslands 
  • can seek protection within the trees 
  • protein rich meet lets them have a larger body and a larger brain 
  • gender dimorphism 
  • leapords eat astrolopithicus 
  • pebble tools are crude 
  • 1 or 2 percussive strikes
  • evolution of hunting strategies 
  • specific social units 
  • acheulean hand axe 
  • social engagment - cooperative hunting 
  • toralba-ambrona, spain excavated in the 1960's 
  • broca's area 
  • speech production 
  • homoerectus speaks 
  • arcurate fasiculus 
  • raymond dart 
  • louis leaky and mary leaky - multiple species of astrolopithesines 
  • donald johansne and his discovery of lucy 
  • richard leaky and meave leaky 

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