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Human Ev. Final
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
11/09/2013

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Homology
Definition

term used for shared, derived charcteristics

-shared by a group of organisms 

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Analogies
Definition

similar features, shared by unrelated organisms 

example

wing of a bat, wing of a bird simalirty not due to commone ancestry 

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PreCambrian

 

Definition

3000 mya

first micro organisms 

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Paleozoic
Definition

Begins with cambrian explosion

plants colonize on land, segmented critters, amphibans 570-280

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Mesozoic
Definition

age of reptiles 

225-136

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mesozoic ended with
Definition

metor- 

devils tail-

yucatan peninsula

crater 180 km diameter

mass extention 

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Cenozoic

 

 

Definition

 

mammalin adaptive radiation 

65-1.8 mya 

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Paleocene
Definition

65-55 ma

-cooler climates

North america/ greenland/europe connected

africa/South america and island 

antartica/austrila connected 

-angiosperm,adaptive radiations

 
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orders most closley related to primates
Definition

1. Dermoptera- colugos

2.chiroptera-bats

3.scandenta-tree shrews

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Eocene
Definition

55-34 mya 

N.america+ eurasia connected until45 mya

prosiman adaptive radiation 

 

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Oligocene
Definition

34-23 mya 

primates present in s america in beggining 

old world/ new world split during oligocene 

fossils found in fayum depresssion

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New world/ old world monkey split
Definition
In the olgicene
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Taphnonmy
Definition
study the process from death to fossilization
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Apidum
Definition
found in africa just before nw/ow monkey split 2.1.3.3 Squirrell/monkey like
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aegyptopithecus
Definition
largest of the fayum anthropoids 2.1.2.3 stem catarrhine y5 molar pattern ancestral to owm apes + humans larger visual cortex caning dimorphism slow moving quadraped
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mosaic evolution
Definition
changes in one functional system occur at different rate than other functional systems
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miocene
Definition

23 mya 

hominoid adaptive radiation

in cenozoic 

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Pliocene
Definition

5 mya

apart of cenozoic 

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Pleisiaapiforms
Definition

Primate like but not true primates 

diverse group 

came before primates 

in the paleocene 

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2 major groups of earliest primates in eocene
Definition

1. Adapids- ancestral to modern lemurs

2. omomyids-ancestral to haplorhines 

had an adpative radiation 

Term
Hominoid stuff
Definition

Hominoid (humans,great apes, lessser apes) 

Hominoid adaptive radiation accured in the miocene 

Homminodid dilemma ( could not adapte quick enough to changes, could not have kids quick enough to increase poup.) 

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Sivapithcus
Definition

ancestor to mordern orgautans 

 

Term
proconsil
Definition
"dental apes"
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paleoecology
Definition
they study of animal and plant fossils
Term
Multi disciplunary approach
Definition

geologist-interpert the layers

geophsicists- age the fossil site

paleoecolgists- reconstruct the enviroment 

anatomists/biomechanics- reconstruct critter +its movement

archeolgists -inturpurt tools 

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Great Rift Valley
Definition

Located in kenya, africa 

a ridge with trenchs on either side, Fossil site for many early hominid 

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Absoulute Dating techiniques
Definition

Aka chrometric, radiometrice dating 

-gives an actual age or something 

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Relative Dating
Definition
Dating by dating the earth (rock) around where the fossils are found... gives a time range not exact date
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Radio metric dating
Definition
gives and absoulute date of a fossil by using chemicals such as uranium, or potassium by putting it on fossil and by using the half life of the chemical determines how old the fossil is
Term
Biostratigraphy
Definition

branch of stratigraphy 

dates the fossils by dateing the rocks around, and deterimineing what type of rock sediment was laid 

Term
Potasium argon dating
Definition

 used to date fossil "lucy" 

must be used on volcanic materials 

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Piltdown hoax
Definition
Florine content test, determined that the fossil had absorbed very little florine from the soil
Term
Epigamic Feature
Definition

A feature the identifieys one sex, but really has nothing to with the reporductive process 

Sexual selection 

Term
Changes in the skull for bipeedality
Definition
foramen magnum moved forward under the skull
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Changes in the spine for bipeds
Definition

Spine becmae s shapep, 2 curves 

neck-kyphosis 

lower back-lordasis 

Term
changes in the pelvis for bipeds
Definition

3 bones ilium, ischium, pubis 

sacrum- became part of vertebral column 

ilium- became short broad curved like a bowl 

pubis-longer in 2 domensions mediolateral +superior inferior 

Term
Gulteal muscles
Definition
gluteus medius, minius keeps from falling to the side when standing on one leg
Term
glteal muscles
Definition
gluteus maxiumus (butt)) keeps you from falling forward when walking
Term
Austrolophincines
Definition

Short 3.5 feet tall 

post crania (head) fully bipedal 

ape like arms- long

small canines 

supnasal prognathism 

large temoralis muscle 

saggital kept crest ridge of bone on top of skull or orgin

Term
Robust australopithiecus
Definition

robustus 

au boisei 

Term
Gracile austalopithcines
Definition

au anamensis 

au afarenis "lucy"

au afrucanus "taung baby" 

Term
Lucy
Definition

Au afarenis 

two sites, laetor + hadar 

homind dateing 3.7-3.0 mya ago 

Term
bergmans rule
Definition

states climate is related to body size 

colder the climate the shorter and stouter the body size, warmer climate the longer taller body 

Term
Allens Rule
Definition
climate is related to the size of appendages
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Robust vs Gracile
Definition
robust have bulkier bones, larger molars, jaw stuck out farther, Gracile less  specialized, robust more specialized avioded competetiona nd only lived in one enviroment
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Ardipthecus
Definition
changes the way we thought about evolution because it showed that bipedailty evolved way before we thought, and that humans did not dircetly come from apes
Term
paranthroupus
Definition
genus name for robust australopithecines
Term
Laetoli footprints
Definition

3.6 mya 

found in tanzinia 

two early humans walked through wet volcanic ash 

most likely Australopithecus afarensis

Term
A. Gahri
Definition

first use of tools 

2.5 mya 

Term
pleistocene
Definition

began 1.8 mya 

the ice age 

Term
A. Robustus
Definition
are believed to be the direct line to modern humans went extinct 1million years ago
Term
Genus Homo
Definition
defining characteristic bipedaility, africa, 23-5 mya
Term
Homo Erctus
Definition

first to leave africa, went to eruasia, europe. india 

tools- auechelan 

existed from 1.8- 1.3 mya 

smaller brain size 

Term
what is regional continiuty and replacement models
Definition
how homo ercetus and modern day homo sapiens left africa and envloved into new locations
Term
hominoids in chrological order newest to oldest
Definition

A.boisei 

A.robustus 

H.Habilis 

A.Garhi

A. Africanus

A. Aethiopicus

A. Afarensis

A. Anamemnis

Ardipithecus

O.tugensis

S. tchandnsis 

Term
mousterian tool industry
Definition
tool culture associated with archaic homo sapians
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