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Exam 1-Oct. 3 Flashcards

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Goal

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disciplined search for knowledge

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Inductive Reasoning

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Describe and order phenomena in systematic way

  • Gather data
  • Organize observations into generalizations
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Deductive Reasoning

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Hypothesis testing: (prediction)

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Organic Evolution

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change in gene frequency in population over time

Verifiable fact- changes are measurable

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Macro-evolution (organic)

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speciation events, long term, multigenerational (evolution/extinction

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Micro-evolution (organic)

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small-scale changes over a few generations

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population

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interbreeding group of individuals that are reproductively isolated from other interbreeding groups

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Hardy-Weinburg model of Genetic Equilibrium

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  • Predicts population’s gene frequency at genetic equilibrium
  • No evolution occurs at equilibrium
  • Deviations=signs of evolution
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Observable Evidence of Evoution

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1) All life is related.
a) All pass genetic info. in form of DNA.
b) All build proteins from the same set of amino acids.
c) Shared chemical-detail genes (metabolic pathways)

2) Organisms for natural relationships
3) Species do not have clear boundaries.
4) Organisms display vestigial structures.
5) Fossils form natural relationships with living species.
6) Extinct species don’t reappear in later strata/

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Anthropology

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The entire scope of the human experience

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culture

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the strategy by which people adapt to natural and social environments

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enculturation

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the process by which we learn language and beliefs of communal society

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adaptation

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functional response to environment resulting from natural selection

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Enlightenment

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Philosophical movement in Europe, assumed knowable oder to natural world, emphasized value of reason

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ethnographies

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descriptive studies of human societies (comparisons), particularly Non-Western

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urban anthropology

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deals with cities, deals with relationships among ethnic groups, homelessness, health care, immigrant tradition

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transcription

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creating mRNA (the guy that transfers genetic information transcribed from DNA to a ribosome

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translation

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going from bases to amino acids

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Mitosis
Start with__?
End with___?

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-Start with 46 single stranded chromosomes. Through replication get 46 double stranded chrom.
Then the cell splits and seperates, which each strand compposed of one DNA molecule
-End up with 2 cells with 46 single stranded chromosomes.

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Meiosis

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  • Start with 46 single stranded
  • Replicate to 46 double stranded
  • Crossing over- switching of genes
  • Now have two cells with 23 double stranded chromosomes
  • The two cells divide, resulting in four cells with 23 single stranded chromosomes.
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Darwin

Alred Wallace

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1809-1882

1823-1913

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Natural selection

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1) Variation in population is present.
2) In any naturally occurring pop, some variants survive better.
3) These variants have higher reprod. success

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Gene flow

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Exchange of genes between populations due to interbreeding= INCREASE in genetic variation WITHIN populations, but DECREASE in variation BETWEEN populations
(microevolution)

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Genetic drift

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  • change in frequency of allele
  • Due to random sampling (when some individuals leave behind more descendants than other)
  • Affects change through random events
  • Decreases variation within a population (When pop. is small)
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Founder’s effect

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Small group of ‘founders’ leaves parent group to form new colony. Everyone is descended from founders.

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Cenozoic Era

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  • Neogene (23- 2.5 mya)
    a) Holocene (11 kya- present) (homo genus)- farming starts
    b) Pleistocene- Lucy (2 mya-11 kya)
    c) Pliocene (5- 2 mya) (hominin- ape men)
    d) Miocene (23-5 mya) (hominin)
  • Paleogene (monkeys) (66- 23 mya)
    a) Oligocene (35-23 mya)
    b) Eocene (56-34 mya)- identify primates
    c) Paleocene (65-56 mya)
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Mesozoic Era

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  • Dinosaurs
  • Cretaceous (146-65 mya)- asteroid
  • Jurassic (208-146 mya)
  • Triassic (245-208 mya)- mammals first evolved (primates)
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Primates

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Appear in fossil record near end of Cretaceous Period (65 mya)

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Early Eocene (Who emerged, what happened?)

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  • 50 mya
  • Prosimians (lemurs/lorises) appear in fossil record of Asia, Europe, North America synchronously
  • Emergence of perissodactyles and artiodactyles (animals with hooves)
  • Warming event (at Paleocene/Eocene boundary)- may be possible by extension of tropical climates
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Primates of Early Eocene

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  • Adapids: Allied with modern strepsirrhines (lemurs and lorises); wet noses
  • Omomyids: Allied with modern haplorrhines (tarsiers and anthropoids-OW Monkeys and apes, including humans)
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Stereoscopic vision

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  • Eyes face forward.
  • Helps with moving around forest/prey capture
  • Post-orbital bars- where cheek bone meets frontal bone/cup
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Middle Ages

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  • Feudal, hierarchal society, Christianity
  • Arab & Indian already developed planetary
  • Greater awareness of biological diversity
  • 1514 Copernicus discovered earth not center
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John Ray

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  • Came up with concept of species (plants/animals mate individually)
  • Coined ‘genus’
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genus

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species which share similarities

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Carolus Linnaeus

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-Binomial nomenclature-> taxonomy

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Cuvier

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  • Introduced ‘extinction’

- Introduced ‘catastrophism’- destroy and restock

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Malthus

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-Came up with idea of population growth/competition for food and water

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Lyell

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  • Responsible for uniformitarianism

- Emphasized enormity of geologic time depth

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Uniformitarianism

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Geological processes observed in present are same as past

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Individuals

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Don’t change genetically, populations do

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Biological continuity

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Organisms are related through common ancestry, some traits in species not present in others

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regulatory proteins

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  • enter cell’s nucleus and attach to DNA

- make proteins to switch genes on and off

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Sequence of DNA determines___.

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the order of amino acids

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homeobox genes

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Type of regulatory genes which direct segmentation of embryonic changes= physical differences among species

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autosomes

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  • Contain genetic info that governs all the physical characteristics except sex determination
  • Occur in pairs
  • Human somatic cells have 22 pairs- abnormal number is fatal
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The Principle of Segregation

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genes occur in pairs because chrom. occur in pairs

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Locus

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position on chromosome where given gene occurs

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Polygenic inheritance

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traits are discrete/discontinuous (phenotypic traits have distinct, defined categories)

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Mitochondria

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Converts energy derived from the breakdown of nutrients to a form cells can use

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mitochondrial DNA

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  • DNA found in mitochondrion inherited only by mother’s eggs

- Subject to mutation

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allele frequency

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  • Percentage of all the alleles at a locus accounted for by one specific allele
  • Indicate genetic makeup of population
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Genetic bottleneck

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  • Reduction in size of population due to environmental events
  • Loss of genetic diversity
  • Tay-Sachs, PKU, cystic fibrosis
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directional change

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nonrandom change in allele frequencies (frequencies consistently increase or decrease)

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Heterodonts

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  • Have more than 1 single tooth morphology
  • Dental formula- 2-1-2-3
  • Incisors were larger than molars
  • Flat molars-large surface area to eat seeds and nuts
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temporalis muscle

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at temple, vertical chaving

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masseter muscle

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lateral chewing

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sagittal crest

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muscle attachment site for temporalis (in apes)

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temporal line

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attach temporalis muscle to skull

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temporal fossa

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hole for temporalis muscle; bigger the hole/crest, bigger the muscle

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supraorbital torus

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ridge at eyebrows

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nuchal crest

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where neck muscles attack

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sexual dimorphism

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differences in morphology (the different forms sexes are taking on)

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diastema

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space between teeth where opposite canine will fit

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anthropoids

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“advanced” “higher” primates

  • platyrrihines: New World monkeys, flat nose
  • catarrines: Old World monkeys, noses out more, apes, hominins
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obligative bipeds

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-bipedals all the times

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foramen magnum

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  • Hole for spinal chord in skull

- differs in chimps and humans

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East Africa

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  • Rift Valley (two of earth’s tectonic plates moved apart for 20 million years), only place preserved well
  • Forested areas instead of erosional badlands (7-5 mya)
  • Water aided in sedimentation around trees, preserving bones
  • Volcanic rock rich in K
  • Older site
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East Africa (peeps down there)

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  • *Ardipithecus (Ethiopia)
    a) apelike
    b) small brain
    c) large face
    d) curved fingers
  • *Orrorin (Kenya)
  • *Sahelantrhopus (Chad)
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S. Africa

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  • limestone corpses
  • Breccia
  • Trees served as food & shelter
  • Hominins found caves where they kept remains of the hunted
  • Younger site
  • relative dating
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Breccia

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rock composed of preserved ancient bones

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Direct dating

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Dating the actual fossil, artifact, or feature

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Indirect dating

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Date remains by association with already dated remains

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Relative determination

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Evaluate piece of data relative to another piece

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absolute (chronometric) determination

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  • Places age of material on absolute time scale
  • Usually assign age in years before present
  • Expressed in terms of time span/range
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radioisotopic dating

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  • absolute determination
  • Uses radioactive decay (transformation of unstable radioactive isotopes into stable elements)
  • Original amount of radioactive isotope at onset of decay must be known
  • We calculate the sum of the radioactive material now present and the isotope into which radioactive one is decaying
  • Rate of radioactive decay must be known (expressed in half lives)
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radio-potassium dating

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  • absolute determination
  • Isotope used: Potassium-40 -> Disintegration into Argon->40 (half life: 1.25 billion years)
  • Rock mineral is rich in K
  • Restricted to volcanic areas because requires high temperatures to set daughter isotopic ratio to zero
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Hylobates (classification)

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lesser apes (no fossil record)

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Hominidae and Ponginae (classification)

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  • Great apes (chimps, gorillas, humans, orang.)
  • most lived during miocene era
  • Asia-orangutans
  • Africa-us!!
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Proconsul

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-early ape (23-25 mya)
-Frugivorous teeth adapted for diet of fruit
-Generalized arboreal quadruped (live on trees)
-Deep, narrow ribcage
-long, lower back
-legs and arms same length
-walk on palms
-no tail (emphasis on deliberate movement)- CLAMBERING
(allowed for restructuring of pelvis-BE MORE UPRIGHT)
-Selection for longer forearms & phalanges which means more postures!

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Pierolapithecus catalaunicas

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-Barcelona (~3 mya)
-Primitive features: small hands, straight fingers
(quadroped on trees)
-great ape features: reduced muzzle, wide & narrow ribcage, wide shoulder blades (upright pos.), mobile wrist joints= vertical climbing

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Khoratphithecus

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  • (13.5-7 mya) Late Miocene
  • Khorat, Thailand
  • Teeth/mandible match pongo

Ex. Chororapithecus abyssinius
^fossils 10 mill. years older than predicted

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Middle Awash (Ethiopia)

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  • hominin
  • Oldowan tool complex
  • Fossils from ~36 people found, derived from radioactive deposits dates ~4.4 mya
  • Houses fossil named Ardipithecus ramidus
    a) Blunt canines= no canine displays, females like less aggressive
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Hominin characteristics (Both Chimp-like and distinctly human)

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Like Humans:

  • bipedalism
  • position of foramen magnum (where spinal chord meets brain) different
  • foot phalanges
  • partial skeleton & pelvis

Like chimps:

  • large canine teeth
  • baby teeth like chimp. in morphology
  • thin tooth enamel
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Vested Provisioning (Breakthrough Adaptations- Hominin)

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Bipedality, then:

1) Loss of sharp canines
2) Walk upright, can carry things
3) More social adhesion & pair bonding
4) Ovulatory crypsis- hidden ovulation

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Ardi

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(Hominin)

  • Female skeleton
  • Bipedalism (upright) and feminized male canines
  • Same brain size as chimp.
  • Apelike lower pelvis=climb
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Biostratigraphy

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  • Dating rocks by dating fossils contained within them
  • Ideal for:
    a) wide geographic range
    b) locations that can be dated absolutely
    c) species with rapidly evolving lineage
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Hominin (which genera this includes)

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  • Terminal Miocene
  • Ardipithecus
  • Orrorin
  • Sahelanthropus
  • Had flattened preolars
  • bipedalism
  • large faces
  • small brains
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Ape Men

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  • Australopithecus afarensis (3.6-3.0 mya)-Lucy
  • Australopithecus (4.2-3.9 mya)

??Terminal Miocene/Early Pliocine Hominins (7.0-4.4 mya)

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Megadontia

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big cheekteeth

  • adaptation to fibrous diet
  • first found in A. anamensis
  • then found in robust australopithecus
    a) premolars become more ‘molarized’
  • -Australopithecus boisei (E. Africa)
  • -Australopithecus robustus (S. Africa)
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What morophological changes did Megadontia produce?

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1) Large sagittal crest
2) Forward-projecting jaw (prognathism)
3) Cheekbones placed forward
4) Massive mandible
5) Thick enamel

^due to change in diet

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What happened 3.0 to 2.5 mya?

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  • Cooling down
  • Expansion of savannah in Africa, loss of preferred hominin habitats and foods
  • Australopithecus ate roots and tubes
  • Robust australopithecus used bone tools for digging in ground for food
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How are A. robustus and A. boisei related

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  • Common descendant from recent ancestor (platogenesis)
  • Monophylum theory: they both evolved from A. aethiopicus (<no evidence)
  • Similar adaptive responses morphologically
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How did homo genus and robust austral. deal with change in environment (3.0 to 2.5 mya)?

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  • Robust australopithecus: SOMATICALLY- evolving features

- Homo genus: EXTRASOMATICALLY- stone/cutting tools, eating MEAT

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homoplasy

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  • Characteristic shared by set of species but not present in common ancestor
  • Same environmental pressures, so they adapted in the same way
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Expensive Tissue Hypothesis

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-Hominin brains accounted for 2% body mass, however demands 16-20% of energy and oxygen needed every day
=dramatic reduction in GI gut size

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Homo

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  • Switch to omnivorous diet (~2.5 mya)
  • Elongated legs- better for hunting
  • Cut marks in fossils
  • Hammerstone marks- remove blood marrow
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Earliest Stone Tools (Oldowan Industrial Complex)

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  • Found in E. Asia- ‘Pebble/Copper’ Stone tool industry
  • Found in Gona
  • Cores: inside of rock
  • Hammerstones: used to strike cores
  • Flakes: produced from hammerstone percussion
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Why were stone tools awesome for the Homo?

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They could leave Africa! ~1.7 mya

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Homo

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1) H. Habilis (~1.8 mya)
2) H. Rudolfensis(~1.8 mya)
-Had larger brain size than Austral.
^^Last hominins restricted to Africa
….one of these two gave rise to Homo ergaster
3) H. heidelbergensis (~1 mya)l from Africa

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Homo ergaster

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  • Widespread in Africa
  • Significantly larger brain than H. habilis & rudolfensis
  • Large, modern body
  • FIRST HOMININ to leave Africa ~1.7 mya
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Dmanisi

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  • Site of ruined medieval fortress
  • Excavation revealed fossils disturbed by medieval peeps
  • H. ergaster found here- skeleton, skull & Oldowan stone tools
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Acheulean Industry

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  • 1.6 to 1.4 mya in Africa and Europe
  • Used bifacial tools flaked on both sides
  • Increase in efficient use of raw materials compared to Oldowan
  • Simple tools made for specific tasks
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Movius Line

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-Marks eastern limit of Acheulean Industrial Tradition

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Homo sapiens

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  • Gave rise in Africa

- We came from African ancestor that replaced Neanderthals and H. erectus

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hominoid

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humans, great apes, and lesser apes

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hominid

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humans & great apes

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hominin

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humans

i) non-sectorial premolar
ii) bipedalism

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Gracile Australopithecus

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(earlier one)

  • thinner bones
  • A. afarensis (3.6-3 mya)- E. Africa “Lucy”
  • A. africanis (3-2 mya)- S. Africa “Tong Child”
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Robust Australopithecus (aka Paranthropus)

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(later one)

  • A. aethiopius (2.7-2.3 mya)- Ethiopia, black bone
  • A. boisei (2.3- 1.3 mya)- E. Africa, “Nutcracker man”
    i) Dished face, flat teeth
  • A. robustus (1.8- 1 mya)- S. Africa
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zygomatic arch

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attachment site for massetter (chewing) muscle

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postorbital constriction

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pinching in of brain at eye sockets

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Innominate bone

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hip bone

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Homo neanderthalensis

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  • 200k to 28kya
  • primarily in Europe.. SW and Central Asia
  • ‘Old Man’- La Chapelle-aux-saints- shows us how humanlike they were (caretaking)
  • brow ridge
  • occipital bun=big brains
  • big nose
  • wide ribcage, short limbs
  • increasing surface area
  • ritual burial
  • ornamentation
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Mousterian

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  • composite tools

- making tool into handle.. Shows requires thought

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Platyrrhines

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  • anthropoids

- new world monkeys

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Catarrhines

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  • old world monkeys
  • apes
  • projecting noses
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Miocene epoch

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  1. 5-5.2 mya
    - apes and monkeys
    - more amount of monkeys
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Pliocene epoch

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  1. 2-2.6 Mya
    - Ice Age, temp. dropped
    - hominins in Africa, Asia, and Europe
    a) Homo heidelbergensis
    - ^descendants of homo erectus
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Pleistocene epoch

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  • 2.6-12 kya
  • beginning of homo
  • H. habilis emerged
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Holocene epoch

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  • 12 kya to present
  • radiocarbon dating
  • Kennewick man (human)
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Aridification

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‘Drying’

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Monophyllum theory

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-States that A. robustus and A. Boisei have one common ancestor which also has all their traits

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New World Monkeys

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  • Central/South America

- plattyrhines

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Old World Monkeys

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  • Native to Africa and Asia

- catarrhine

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strepsirrhines

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  • lemurs and lorises

- wet nose

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haplorrhines

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  • tarsiers and anthropoids (OW monkeys and apes-including humans)
  • dry nose
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Characteristics of Primates of Early Eocene

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  • Primates possess generalized/unspecialized skeletons compared to other animals (who have clavicles/ 5 digits)
  • Stereoscopic vision
  • Large brain size relative to body size
  • Nails rather than claws for tool making
  • Opposable thumb
  • Mobile wrist, ankle, shoulder joints
  • Small litters
    a) Slower growth and maturation
    b) Flexible, learned behavior (not instinct)
    c) Sociality- with adult males in group

Anthropology 100 (4 decks)

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