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Question 1. How is the body of Homo erectus different from earlier hominids (the australopithecines in particular?)

Question 2. Why was the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton such an important fossil find?

Question 3. How did they figure out how old the Turkana Boy was from looking at the teeth? What does this indicate about his rate of growth? Did the Turkana Boy age more like a chimpanzee or more like a human?

Question 4. What is the purpose of Broca's area, and what is the significance of Broca's area in Homo erectus?

Question 5. In what ways does the hand axe reveal the cognitive developments of Homo erectus?

Question 6. Why did Homo erectus likely turn to increased meat eating?

Question 7. How does the study of lice inform when in human evolution hominids lost their body hair?

Question 8. Why are hair loss and sweating especially important adaptations?

Question 9. What is persistence hunting?

Question 10. What was the nature of Homo erectus weaponry?

Question 11. Why does Richard Wrangham believe that African Homo erectus in the time of the Turkana Boy must have used fire?

Question 12. How is the mother-infant bond different in apes vs. humans?

Question 13. How were the Dmanisi hominids different from the Turkana Boy? How was the date of the Dmanisi hominids established?

Question 14. How does Homo floresiensis complicate what we thought we understood about the first hominid to disperse out of Africa?

Question 15. Why might Homo erectus have left Africa in the first place?

Question 16. What does the Dmanisi skull with no teeth indicate about how Homo erectus may have behaved socially?

Question 17. How might the Turkana Boy have died?