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| Sahelanthropus tchadensis |
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7 mya | Chad - Central Africa Named for the Sahel region of Africa. Popular name is "Touomai"="hope of life." |
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5.6-6.2 mya | Kenya - East Africa "Original Man" |
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5.8-5.2 mya Ethiopia - East Africa "base family ancestor" |
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4.4 mya | Aramis, Ethiopia - East Africa "ground ape" "root" |
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| Australopithecus anamensis |
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4.2-3.8 mya North Kenya - East Africa "lake" |
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| Australopithecus afarensis |
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3.9-3.0 | Ethiopia - East Africa "Lucy" is an example. Over 300 specimens |
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3.5 - 3.2 mya | Kenya - East Africa "Flat-faced hominin from Kenya" |
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| Australopithecus africanus |
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2.5-1.3 mya | South Africa (possibly E. Africa) "southern ape of Africa" "Taung Baby" |
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2.5 mya | Bouri, Ethiopia - East Africa "Surprise" First evidence of butchered animals. |
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2.8-2.2mya | Ethriopia - East Africa "Black skull." One of the smallest brains |
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2.2-1 mya | East Africa Hyperrobust; "Zinjanthropus" is an example. Nicknamed "Nutcracker Man" |
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2.2-1.5 mya | South Africa Overlaps in time with Paranthropus aethiopicus. |
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2.4-1.65 | East & South Africa "Handy Man" Bipedal, stonetools, earliest ___ |
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| Soft Spots in skull giving room for brain to grow. |
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| Supraorbital torus (Supra - above | orbital - eyes) |
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| Supraorbital torus is very primitive. If you have supraorbital torus you don't have a forehead. |
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(Face projects out)
Big jaw big face result in progmathism
facial - entire face, separate from the brain case, like a gorilla.
alveolan - where just mostly the mouth protrudes |
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| Post-orbital constriction |
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| Behind the eyes the skull pinches before the brain. You can't have a well developed frontal lobe if you have this. |
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| A muscle attachment on quadrupeds on back of skull to keep their head from falling forward. Primitive. |
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| Muscle attachment behind jaw on bipedals that keeps the head from falling backwards. Derived. |
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| A muscle attachment over the top of a primitive skull. Muscles for moveing the gaw/chewing. Having a sagittal crest tells that the animal has big teeth/jaws. |
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| Angle Foramen magnum (big hole) |
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| Where the brainstem continues down into the spinal cord. Angle determines quadraped, semi-biped or biped. |
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| Place in the upper jaw were the lower canines fit. Primitive. If you have a diastima you have big teeth. |
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| Angled premorlar in lower jaw so that the upper canines fits. |
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Parallel - Primitive
Parabolic (more arched shape with ends of archs being more wide) - derived |
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