17 Outtakes Hominids Family Hominids Hominidae Genus Australopithecus

























































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17 Outtakes
Hominids Family • Hominids (Hominidae) Genus • Australopithecus. . . • Paranthropus. . . • Homo. . .
Australopithecines Paranthropus robustus = Australopithecus robustus
Australopithecines “Advanced” Australopithecus = Homo habilis
Selected Major Discoveries / Events, ca. 1850 - Present e. g. , 1972 "1470" (and "1590") • Lake Turkana, East Africa • Homo rudolfensis • 2 mya
“Taung Child” “Lucy” Turnbaugh, Jurmain, Kilgore, and Nelson, 8 th ed. , p. 248
Hominids “The Great Savanna”
Selected Major Discoveries / Events, ca. 1850 - Present 1950 s to present Many finds of Mary and Louis Leakey and Richard and Meave Leakey
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 229
Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 234
Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 234
Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 234
Australopithecus review
Australopithecines • Australopithecus. . . • Paranthropus. . . (aka Australopithecus robustus) _____ “Plio - Pleistocene hominids”
Hominids Family • Hominids ( Hominidae ) Subfamily ^
Family: Hominids (Hominidae) Subfamily Genus • Australopithecines • Australopithecus. . . • Paranthropus. . . • Hominines • Homo. . .
Early Hominids II • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • Paranthropus • Homo • • • • tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus rudolfensis ( “early” ) habilis ( “early” ) erectus sapiens
Slide Set #17: Australopithecus I Tim Roufs’ section
End of Class Slides Set # 17 Continue on to Set # 18
Time 23 July 2001
Australopithecines “Advanced” Australopithecus = Homo habilis
Early Hominids Genus Species • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • tugenensis • ramidus • anamensis • afarensis • africanus • garhi • aethiopicus • boisei • robustus • Paranthropus
Early Hominids Genus Species • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • tugenensis • ramidus • anamensis • afarensis • africanus • garhi • aethiopicus • boisei • robustus • Paranthropus
Early Hominids Genus Species • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • tugenensis • ramidus • anamensis • afarensis • africanus • garhi • aethiopicus • boisei • robustus • Paranthropus
Early Hominids Genus Species • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • tugenensis • ramidus • anamensis • afarensis • africanus • garhi • aethiopicus • boisei • robustus • Paranthropus
Early Hominids Genus Species • Orrorin • Ardipithecus • Australopithecus • tugenensis • ramidus • anamensis • afarensis • africanus • garhi • aethiopicus • boisei • robustus • Paranthropus
Australopithecines Genus Species • Australopithecus • Paranthropus • Homo • robustus
Hominids “The Transvaal Hominids”
Australopithecines Genus Species • Australopithecus • africanus • Paranthropus • Homo
3. 5 mya Australopithecus suggesting our ancestors were less chimp-like than we thought
Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7 th ed. , p. 429
Plio - Pleistocene hominid = Australopithecus Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 183
Prehistoric Cultures Introduction to Early Hominids
Plio - Pleistocene hominid = Australopithecus Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8 th ed. , p. 183
Epochs: Tertiary / Quaternary
Epochs: Tertiary / Quaternary
31 January 2003
Australopithecines Australopithecus ramidus = Ardipithecus ramidus
Time 23 July 2001
Fossil Naming Conventions
Epochs: Tertiary / Quaternary
Epochs: Tertiary / Quaternary Plio - Pleistocene hominid = Australopithecus
Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918 -1940), Alton, IL, was 8 ft. 11. in.