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Origins – the species

Origins – the species. question the origin of a species – our species. the species. defining the species. bipedalism large brain tool using ‘human behaviors’ language consciousness culture. another unique species?. evolution and the antiquity of humankind.

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Origins – the species

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  1. Origins – the species

  2. questionthe origin of a species – our species

  3. the species

  4. defining the species bipedalism large brain tool using ‘human behaviors’ language consciousness culture another unique species?

  5. evolution and the antiquity of humankind 1859 Darwin – Origin of Species 1863 Charles Lyell – Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man

  6. 1797 John Frere

  7. Boucher de Perthes 1859

  8. Hadar in Ethiopia the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?

  9. the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?

  10. teeth from Hadar evidences fossil skeletal material tools and their findspots biomolecular survey of living populations

  11. evidence – tools choppers

  12. evidence – tools handaxes

  13. evidence – tools flakes

  14. evidence – tools blades

  15. title text in Gill Sans 14pt phylogeny – drawing the human family tree

  16. disciplines palaeoanthropologist – physical anthropologist with a speciality in some area of human anatomy, and/or an interest in ancient human behavior; in the latter they overlap with palaeolithic archaeologists palaeoanthropology – aiming to construct a narrative of how humans came to be the way they are archaeologist – responsible for field excavation and study of hominid artifacts (material culture) palaeontologist – studying nonhuman fossil vertebrates palaeobotanist, with palynologist, helping to reconstruct ancient environments and ecologies, as do geologists geochronologist – dating geological sequences molecular biologist – DNA extraction and sequencing cognitive scientist – cognition and behavior from science to philosophy

  17. one or many origins - mitochondrial Eveand ‘out of Africa’ Zhoukoudian – Erectus in China

  18. us and them

  19. Leakey’s Turkana boy

  20. Raymond Dart and the Taung child

  21. the Leakey’s and Olduvai Gorge

  22. Bernard Ngeneo and 1470

  23. a Homo hippo feast at Koobi Fora

  24. Johanson and Lucy (Aus. Afarensis

  25. Laetoli footprints

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