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16 Cards in this Set
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Sahelanthropus Tchadensis |
6-7.6 MYA and very small brain size, smaller than a chimp. Oldest known hominin |
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Orrorin Tugenensis |
5.8-6.1 MYA, brain size is unknown, may have been bipedal found it through looking at the size and shape of femur. |
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Aridpithecus ramidus |
4.3-4.5 MYA, brain size unknown, foramen magnum suggests bipedalism. |
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Australopithecus anamensis |
3.9-4.1 MYA, brain size unknown, and lower leg bone indicates bipedal. Australopithecus means southern ape. |
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Australopithecus afarensis |
3-4 MYA, most famous fossil is Lucy, brain size is 446 cubic cm. |
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Australopithecus africanus |
2-3 MYA, most famous fossil is taung child, brain size between 400-560 cubic cm, bipedal, nickname mrs plus. |
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Australopithecus garhi |
2.5 MYA, brain size is 450 cubic CM, found in ethiopia. Garhi means surprise in afar language, lim proportion was thought to be more human like than the afarensis. |
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paranthropus aethiopicus |
"black skull" skull in teeth were adaptive in eating a very mechanically demanding diet found black skull in ethiopia 2.3-2.5 MYA, brain size is 410 cubic CM |
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paranthropus robustus |
lived 1-2 MYA, brain size 530 cubic cm, adaptive for tough vegetarian diet, branch of human family that never flourished (thought of as dead end side of branch) |
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paranthropus boisei |
1.3-2.3 MYA, brain size 400-550, big cheek teeth, and large chewing muscles. Leakey family were the ones that discovered it. |
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homohabilis |
first member of our own genus, 1.4-1.8 MYA, brain size 510-687, slightly larger brain, made first stone tools. |
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homoerectus |
50,000-1.8 MYA, most famous is turkana boy, brain size was 600-1200, large brow ridges, were adapted for endurance running. Term erectus refers to upright posture |
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homo floresiensis |
"hobbit" discovered in flores, indonesia, lived 12,000 to 95,000 years ago, brain size was only 400. |
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homo heidelbergensis |
we split off from them, found in Germany, lived 200,000-500,000 years ago, brain size over 1200. probable ancestor of neanderthals and modern humans. |
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homo neanderthalensis
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lived 30,000-200,000 years ago, brain size about 1400, rugged physique, adapted to living during ice age Europe, made and used tools, and had personal ornaments of art. |
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homo sapiens |
195,000 years old, modern day humans |
