UCSP Flashcards
It refers to the changes, modifications, and variations in the genetics and inherited traits of biological populations from one generation to another
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
According to Darwin, the environment favors certain organisms and those organisms that survive can pass on their traits. The three important principles of natural selection are heritability, variation, and differential reproductive success.
BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
human, plant, and animal remains that have been preserved through time like human skull and bone fragments.
FOSSILS
objects that were made and used by humans. It include stone tools, metal tools, ceramics, and ornaments
ARTIFACTS
The general term used by scientists to categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures that can walk erect during the prehistoric times
HOMINID
The _, along with the _ and _ are considered prehuman stage of evolution, while the _ is part of the human evolution
Australopithecus
Sahelanthropus
Ardipithecus
Homo
SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS -
Michel Brunet (July 2001-March 2002
Toumaï (‘hope of life’ in the local language).
ARDIPITHECUS KADABBA
in Ethiopia
between 1997-2000 dated to 5.8 million to 5.2 million years ago.
Discovered by Yohannes Haile-Selassie
ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS
Tim White in area of Ethiopia
reported in 1994; in 2009
AUSTRALOPITHECUS ANAMENSIS
Kanapoi, Lake Turkana, Kenya
1965
Bryan Patterson
AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS
Hadar, Ethiopia and Laetoli, Tanzania.
1974 by Donald Johanson
AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS
Robert Bloom and John Sterkfontein
1924
Africa
HOMO HABILIS
Louis and Mary Leakey
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
HOMO ERECTUS
Eugene Dubois
1891
HOMO SAPIENS
Africa
300,000 years ago to present
