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missnapoleon731 on September 25, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Thomas Huxley | "Evidence in Man's Place in Nature" humans are related to African apes not Asian apes |
| Darwin | "The Descent of Man" Humans evolved from apes in Africa |
| bipedalism | walk on 2 feet,upright |
| intremembral index | elongation of hindlimbs humerous length and radius length x 100 femur length and tibia length (a bigger number means it was bipedal) |
| adducted | pulled into |
| Neanderthals | 1856 Neander Valley Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Homo erectus | 1st found was "Java Man" Pitheanthropus erectus |
| Piltdown Man | Eoanthropus dawsoni "missing link" big-brained |
| Australopithecus africanus | Southern ape- South Africa Raymond Dart 3.5 mya-2.5 mya small brain, AP Taung was first site |
| alveoler prognathism | device holding teeth that sticks out bottom jaw juts out |
| canine diastema | gap between canine and incisor teeth |
| Paranthropus aeshiopicus | 2.7-2.3 mya East Africa pronounced saggital crest massive molars and premolars pronounced AP large anterior teeth small brain bipedal |
| Paranthropus robustus | 2-1 mya South Africa small brain small incisors and canines large molars thick mandible sexual dimorphism bipedal vegetarian |
| Paranthropus boisei | 2.3-1.3 mya East Africa "Nutcracker Man" hyper robust small brain tall mandible pronounced saggital crest small incisors and canines huge molars Oldowan industry |
| Homo habilis | 2.5-1.5 mya East and South Africa made tools- "handy man" sexual dimorphism bipedal smaller molars and AP |
| Homo rudolfus | broader flatter face thicker molars larger cranium taller skeleton |
| Kevin Oakley | "Man the Toolmaker" |
| debitage | flakes struck off core rock |
| Oldowan Industry | oldest tool make Leakeys core and flake tools Old Stone Age |
| hammerstone | rock used to strike core in order to make flakes |
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