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acheulian
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early stone tools (bifaces, picks and cleavers) homo habilis
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anatomically modern humans
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us in europe 40,000 to 35,000 years ago
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ardipithecus ramidus
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oldest known human ancestor
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australasia
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austrailia and asia were once together, the area around austrailia (countries)
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aurignacian
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first culture of the upper paleolithic
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australopithecenes
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general term used when refering to ancient hominids
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a. afarensis
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lucy, ethiopia
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a. africanus
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big jaw small body intuitive
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a. anamensis
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small brains
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a. boisei
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big big jaws
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a. robustus
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bigger but not as big as boisei
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behavioral first of homo erectus
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*make boats
*travel in large groups from africa *systematic hunting *use of fire *specific sites for specific tasks |
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bipedalism
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walk on two feet
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blades
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formed in the upper paleolithic
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bonobo
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small species of chip closely related to humans
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Marcellin Coule
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french guy who named neanderthals made them look clumsy
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broca's area
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produces speach
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William Jennings Brian
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charged for teaching evolution in schools
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chatelperronian
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backened knives tool makingq
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choppers
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homo habilis earliest stone tools
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cladistics
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area where people hypothesize about the relationships between past organisms
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cores
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belonged to oldowan technology made by flaking
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cro-magnon
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our modern forms
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cutmarks
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traces left on bone by a stone or metal tool used in butcharing
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Charles Dawson
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Piltdown faker made it all up
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Raymond Dart
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found africannus Taung Child 3-4
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Clarence Darrow
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the scopes trial was against creationism
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dayton tennessee
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place of the scopes trial
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Eugene Dubois
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first to find homo erectus in java
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EEA/ ESA
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european enviromental agency ecological society of america
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enviroment estrus
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in heat
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eve hypothesis
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neanderthals went extinct and then were replace by homo erectus
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faunal
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having to do with animals especially those in one area
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flakes
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a type of tool
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genitor
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a natural father or mother
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hand axes
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part of Acheulian tool making
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holocene Epoch
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end of the last major ice age extinction of neanderthals
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homo erectus
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from asia first human kinda things
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Homo ergaster
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from africa
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homo habilis
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earliest known human species homo
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homo heidelbergensis
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robust, pre-cursers to neanderthals acheulian tools
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homo rudolfensis
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larger brains, more enamel
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homo sapians
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large brains smaller features
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neanderthals
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small and strong, they had a bosa's area, tough
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homology
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similarities in DNA between a members of a species or not memebers of a species
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Thomas Huxley
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debated at oxford about evolution
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Java man
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discovered by eugene debois homo erectus
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Donald Johanson
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Lucy
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Kenyanthropus platyops
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a new species there with lucy
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Meave Leakey
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found the Kenya thing
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lithic
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of stone
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manuports
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unmodified objects made by humans
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Mitochondrial Eve
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most common recent momma ancestor to humans
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mousterian tools
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neanderthal tools
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myelin
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substance of the brain grey
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oldowan
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old tools first
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Olducai Gorge
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where they were found
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Out of Africa model
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goes along with eve thing that african people expanded and killed off neanderthals
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lower paleolithic
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hand axes oldowan habilis
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middle paleolithic
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homo erectus
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upper paleolithic
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language fully developed
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paranthropus
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is an extinct genus of bipedal hominid that is probably descended from the australopithecine hominids
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pater
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father decent
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peking man
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homo erectus in china
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phenetics
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taxonomy
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Pilthecanthropus erectus
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homo erectus piltdown man java man peking man
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stadial interstadial
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climate changes
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Chris Stringer
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false claims of a new species
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Mildford Wolpoff
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believes there is not a single ancester we evolved from
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