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Evolution Flashcards

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Ardipithecus

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Tim White
North- east, Ethiopia
1992-1993
4.5 myp

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Australopithecus africanus

Little foot

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Discovered by Ronald clark
Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa
1994
4.2-3.9 mya

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Australopithecus africanus

Taung child

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Raymond Dart
North West, Taung
1924
2.4-2.8mya

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Australopithecus africanus

Mrs. Ples

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Robert Broom
Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa
1947
2.6mya

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Australopithecus afarensis

Lucy

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Donald Johnson Yves Coppan
Ethiopia
1974
3.2mya

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Australopithecus sediba

Karabo

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Lee Burger
Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
2008
1.95 mya

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Homo habalis

Handy man

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Louis and Mark leakey
Tanzania
1960
2.5mya

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First to discover DNA and how ?

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Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
and through an x-rays
1952

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Who discovered 3D Helix

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Watson and Crick who won a noble prize

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Who and in what year came up with the theory of punctuated Equilibrium

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1972

Niles Eldredge and Stephen J Gould

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