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Anthro 101 Final
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/13/2012

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Major changes in Human evolution
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Increased brainsize, bipedalis, smaller teeth/jaw size, use of tools (stone)
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Characteristics of Bipedalism
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Centrally located foramen magnum, S curved spine, bowl shaped pelivs, centrally angled femurs, robust heel.
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Importance of bipedalism
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Evolved to see over the tall grass, to conserve energy, to free hands to use/make tools and carry food.
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How are fossils created?
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rapid burial, oxygen free environment, pressure & time
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Where can fossils be found
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, amber, ice, tar, rock
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis
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First genus homo with a flat face
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Ororin tugenensis
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only long bones and teeth recovered
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Ardipithecus
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early evolution of bipedalism and cooperation, challenged idea of how early these things developed in human evolution
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Difference between australopithecus and Paranthropus?
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Australopithecus have a saggital heel, smaller teeth, smaller jaw, more gracile

Pranthropus have a saggital crest, larger teeth (molars), larger jaw, more robust.
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The Laetoli footprints
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Louis Leakey & Mary Leakey in 1978
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First Family
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Donald Johnson
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Lucy
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Donald Johnson (Afarensis not Africanus)
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Taung Child
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Josephine Salmons, Pat Izod, E.G. Izod.
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Black Skull
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Alan Walker 1985
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Turkana Boy
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Richard Leakey (a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene)
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Java Man
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Eugène Dubois
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Peking Man
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Davidson Black & Franz Weidenreich
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Dmanisi
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Homo georgicus discovered here (predated erectus)
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Bodo
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found in Ethiopia
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La Chapelle-aux-Saints
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Neaderthal tomb (Jean and Amédée Bouyssonie, as well as L. Bardon)
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The Hobbit
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Mike Morwood (found on Flores of Indonesia)
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Cro-magnon Man
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Louis Lartet (first early modern humans)
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Australopithecus sediba
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New missing link between Australopithecus and Homo
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Magdelinian tools
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Sapiens
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Homo Habils
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first tool user
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Specific features of Homo Erectus
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Post orbital restriction, super orbital sulka, thick cranial walls, saggital heel, long low brain case.
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Homo Erectus
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first to leave Africa
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Why was fire so important to early Homo Erectus
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Allowed us to become true bipeds because we had protection at night, also had better nutrients out of our food, could eat a wider variety of food, more energy overall, got rid of our body hair because we didn't need it for warmth anymore, increases brain size & body size.
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Homo heidelbergensis
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deliberate hominid bone processing by hominids
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Differences between Homo Sapiens and Homo Neaderthalensis
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Neanderthal: Occipital bun, shorter a& stockier to deal with the cold, larger nose & sinuses, fur clothes.

Sapiens: High& wide varietals, larger chin
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Causes of Island dwarfism
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lack of resources on an island forces a large bodied species to get smaller to cope (the Hobbit)
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Know Homo sapiens dispersal
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Start in Africa> middle east > Asia > Australia > backtrack into Europe > land bridge to North America > then South America
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Homo Sapiens culture
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Sculptures, engravings, cave art, Magdelnian
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African replacement model
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Started in Africa, then out competed Erectus and Neanderthals.
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Assimilation model
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Leave Africa, out compete Erectus in Asia, then meet Neanderthals in Europe and interbreed with them
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Multiregional model
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Appeared in multiple locations, piecemeal across the old world (different places and different times), mondern humans arise through gene flow, interbreeding possible between two populations
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Two changes leading to agricultural revolution
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Change in the environment and increasing population size
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Where did agriculture first develop?
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Fertile Crescent in the Jordan Valley.
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Changes agriculture has caused to us both Culturally & Biologically:
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Sedentary Populations, smaller less robust bones, changing human face, higher infections & parasite rates, reduced child growth & development, higher enamel defects, higher iron deficiency, reduced adult height.
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Facts about Corn
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lacts nutrients and needs to be supplemented
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Facts about Milk
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Milk sugars, dairy farming and natural selection, the human digestive system isn't used to processing dairy products.
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What domestication is and how it influenced plants and animals:
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To change something at a genetic level, accentuating the traits beneficial to humans.
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Goals of forensic anthropology:
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Know the cause of death, idnetify the body, give the information over to the proper authorities, provide reliable witness.
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Variation?
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Sexual dimorphism, ancestry, age, stature/height, individual variation.
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Skeletal Analysis?
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Sex, age, ancestry, stature, pathology, trauma, modification.
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Types of Trauma
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Antimortem (before death), Perimortem (at or near the time of death), and Postmortem (after death).
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