Human evolution Flashcards
70 MYA
Vroegste primaten plitsen af van primitieve zoogdieren
Leken op huidige toepaja of boomspitsmuis
50 MYA
Proconsul
Oudste fossiele mensaap achtige
Oost-Afrika
3-15 MYA
Scheiding aap-mens
Australopithecus
2 MYA
Homo erectus: Azie, Afrika
Eerste werktuigen, vuur
Homo sapiens neaderthalensis
300 000 ABP
Homo sapiens sapiens
40 000-130 000 abp
Richard leakey
1969:
Lake Turkana
Small team
Intact fossilized skull Australopathicus bosei (1.75 MYA)
1984:
7 months, 1500 ton sediment
Turkana boy: 9 year old, entire skeleton homo erectus (1.5 MYA)
Hominids
Upright Bipedal
4 Keystages in human evolution
Origin of the human family: 7MYA bipedalism
Adaptive radiation: 7-2 MYA
Evolution of Homo sapiens: Language, consciousness, artistic imagination, technological innovation
Donald Johanson
Lucy
The First Humans: Darwin (1871)
Two pillars of anthropology: Where humans first evolved Manner or form of that evolution Neanderthals bipedalism, technology & large brain evolved in concert (linked-evolution hypothesis)
The First Humans: Afred Russel Wallace
Humans Cannot have evolved, Supernatural invenrtion
The First Humans: Simons & Pilbeam
Upper jaw bone of Ramapithecus: Possibly bipedal, complex social structure
first humans 15-30 MYA
The First Humans: Wilson & Sarich
Blood proteins
5 MYA
3 Divergent lines (Homo, Pan, gorilla)
More complete skeleton of Ramapithecus showed that it was a early relative of Asian apes
Anatomical sim =/ evolutionary relatedness
The origin of mind: 3 Major revolutions
Origin of life
Muticellular organisms
Consciousness