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What is special about the Coelacanth?
The fossil record dilemma is:
There are 2 ways to approach the fossil record dilemma, they are: Typological (splitters) and
Populationist (lumpers)
Calendrical dating
Chronometric dating
Thermoluminescence dating
Relative dating
Radiocarbon dating can only be used for specimens up to 50,000 years old plus or minus 5,000 years
What happened 65 million years ago?
What was Gigantopithecus?
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumai) was found in Chad Africa, although he did NOT have a foramen magnum that could be seen, Brunet the man that found him argues he was clearly bipedal due to how his skull is formed. There is NO postcranial evidence for this specimen Ardipithecus is the last common ancestor of both modern humans and chimpanzees with a mix of features including bipedalism and a grasping big toe for arborealism, she is the most complete skeleton of this species of an adult female When charting human evolution, what is an analogy that we can use?
Matching question on Sagittal Keel, Nuchal Torus, Sagittal Crest and Prognathic Early hominin skulls have postorbital constriction, marked prognathism, large zygomatic arches but DO NOT have chins and foreheads
Why was Dart wrong when he said we were the killer ape?
Be able to recognize a picture of a Paranthropus (robust australopithecus) versus an Australopithecus
Who were the Leakeys?
Why is Lucy so famous?
What did the becoming human video say was the cause of our brains becoming larger after a long period of no change and how did scientists prove that this had occurred?
Australopithecus Sediba has a human like hand but a foot adapted for trees, we have both sexes and many specimens and it is re-setting the timeline for Australopithecines What is a holotype?
Homo habilis and Australopithecus craniums are different as habilis has less pinching behind the eyes and a larger forehead leading to a slightly larger brain Who was the first hominid to leave Africa?
What is special about Turkana boy?
The nickname given to the Pleistocene era is the ice age and it contains mega fauna (large animals)
Homo heidelbergensis left Africa and spread and could be an ancestor to H. sapiens or Neanderthals or a transitional species between H. erectus and H. sapiens
What is special about the Atapuerca site?
What is the great leap forward?
What is the Neanderthal adaptation?
What can the El Sidron cave tell us about the society of Neandertals?
Could Neandertals talk, what is the evidence?
What are the models of how H. sapiens spread and which one is MOST LIKELY true?
Which do the sites Omo Kibish and Klasies river mouth tell us about early H. sapiens?
N. naledi buried their dead but had a small brain with modern hands and feet. Evolution from the outside. The cave system that we find them is hard to get to.
Cro-Magnon had a larger brain than modern humans and is associated with the Aurignacian tool assembly and cave paintings.
What is the best way to determine gender/sex of a child? Of an adult?
What is the best way to determine age of a child? Of an adult?
Rule of thumb test
Scars of parturition
How do we determine age by using Ectocranial sutures?
What can Metrics tell us?
Why are anthropologists interested in paleopathology?
What do anemia and malaria do to a skeleton?
Teeth can tell us about occupation, nutritional stress, age, sex and disease but usually don't tell us the cause of death
Perimortem and postmortem, what are they?