17 Outtakes Hominids Family Hominids Hominidae Genus Australopithecus

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.