Studied by 43 people
Oldowan Toolmakers
Complex foragers
Expensive Tissue Hypothesis
Meat eating led to bigger brains
Paranthropus
Large post canine dentition with small anterior dentition
First Homo species to leave Africa?
Homo erectus
NOT a "robust" hominid
Australopithecus africanus
NOT true of Australopithecus afarensis
Knuckle-walked
Turnover Pulse
Likely cause of Paranthropus
Change in species in Africa
Drier climate
What species was Turkana Boy?
Homo erectus
Who made Oldowan tools?
Homo habilis
Which fossil group makes a good generalized potential ancestor to all Primates?
Plesiadapiforms
Omomyids
Galagos and Lorises
Threat & Display Hypothesis
Bipedalism evolved due to sexual signaling
Sivapithecus
Orangutans
Zircon Dating
How scientists determined the age of the Earth
Humans have the same number of bones as other primates
True
Aegyptopithecus
Old world monkeys and apes
Big brains came before bipedalism
False
Piltdown
Large brain, ape-like jaw
False link/fake science
"Humanity evolved in England
Proconsul
Apes
Paleoecology
Uses fossils to understand the paleo-environment
Humans are highly sexually dimorphic
False
Taphonomy
The science of understanding the events that occur between the death of the animal and the collection of its remains
Grassland Ape Hypothesis
Bipedalism evolved for distance hunting in grassy Savannah lands
Genetic difference between humans and apes
Fused Chromosome 2
The Thoracic-Lumbar curve develops when a child begins walking
True
Humans are
Long distance runners
NOT a bipedal adaptation
Cervical curve
Evolution is linear
False
Laetoli footprints
Australopithecus afarensis
Valgus knee
Bipedalism
NOT a bipedal running adaptation
Basicranial flexion
Australopithecus afarensis
Sexually dimorphic
Bigger brains (500 cc)
Bipedal
Key differences between human and nonhuman primates
Bipedalism
Canine eruption in different times of life
Brain sizes
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