what present day and continent was "Lucy" discovered? The most famous of these fossils‚ nicknamed Lucy‚ was found in 1974 near Hadar‚ Ethiopia (Africa continent). 2. Who discovered the fossil remains that became known as "Lucy"? Donald Johanson‚ an American anthropologist and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and his graduate student Tom Gray. 3. What other famous anthropologist/paleontologist got into a dispute with the team that discovered "Lucy”? What was the argument about?
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The Pliocene is the fifth epoch of the Cenozoic. The epoch started around five million years ago and lasted almost three and a half million years. It is during the Pliocene that the first bipedal ancestors of humans are known to have evolved. Dramatic cooling and a drop in sea level impacted both marine and terrestrial life at the start of the epoch. The name Pliocene means "more recent” and this were the most recent epoch of Tertiary period‚ lasting from about 5 to 2 million years ago. Compared
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ANT203Y1 Lecture # January 28th‚ 2014 Quiz #2; 6:10-7; in class; 15% of final grade; cover ch 8-11 and tutorial worksheets 9-11 40 questions llong‚ multiple choice‚ true or false and matching Bring a pencil for scantron ;) Film ’becoming human’ at 7:10 - 8:00pm Lecture Who were the earliest hominins?? Pre-australapiths; 6-7 - 4.4 mya Very primitive; little known about them; debatable they’re even hominins Earliest ones are sahelanthropus tchadensis; found in chad in 2001; earliest known
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Biological Anthropology Extra Credit Assignment “ARDI” The sequence of videos about the new discovery of the hominid Australopithecus is very helpful to understand human evolution and how theories are challenged supported and sometimes discredit when new fossils are found. The videos are not very complex but explain with brief detailed information the main aspects to understand the new fossils found in the middle Awash in Ethiopia. There is too much noise going on between one video and another
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be examined when figuring out the Evolution of Bipedal locomotion. Upon examination of all the evidence‚ there seems to be many different explanations. The most significant claim is that Autralopithecus afarensis is probably the first ancestor to all homonids. When studying the bones of A. afarensis they look very modern below the neck. For example‚ the knee looks very much like a modern human joint; the pelvis is fully adapted for upright walking; and the foot with both modern and primitive features
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Becoming Human Part 1: Summary The video opens by talking about a fossilized skull found in Africa. Known as “Selam”- Ethiopian word for “peace”‚ an Austalopithecus afarensis that was discovered in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Selam was claimed to be 3.5 million years old. For a long time‚ the assumption was that humanity somehow came naturally as a byproduct of the thing that most obviously distinguishes us from chimpanzees‚ the preference for walking upright on two legs called bipedalism
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Evolution of Australian Biota A) Baragwanathia Baragwanthia fossils were first discovered in Yea‚ Victoria in 1875 and were first described as a lycopod which was derived from the Zosterophylls by Australia’s eminent pioneer botanist‚ Dr Isobel Cookson in 1935. The Fossils of Baragwanthia are believed to date back to the Silurian times. Baragwanthia had long pores which were roughly 1-2 millimetres in radius and is densely covered in leaves that are 4cm in length. The stems could be up
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Finding of Lucy Lucy was a 3.2 million old Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton to ever be found. She was found in Ethiopia on November 24 1974. They first spotted the forearm bone and then they found some other parts of her body as well. Only 40% of her bones have been found yet. Lucy’s discovery is very important to the world because it shows everybody how their ancestors might have looked in the past. It is also important because it helps us understand our past and where we came from
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TOPIC: The physical characteristics of the Australopithecus hominid. The first Australopithecus hominid (later named Australopithecus africanus) was discovered in by an anatomy professor in Johannesburg‚ South Africa named Raymond Dart in 1924. Prof. Dart initially discovered a five year old skull and it was unlike that of an ape’s he had ever seen. According to!!!!!!!!!‚ Studying the skull‚ he made the following discoveries: -The skull had “ape-like” features -had a projecting face -small brain
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their skeletal structure is Australopithecus africanus‚ that some may recognize better as the Taung Child (Barak). Living from 3 to 2.5 million years ago‚ this species has been known to have developing dentition and obligate bipedalism‚ which can be represented in their change of teeth over time along with the distal end of the tibia (Skinner); (Barak). On my expedition to the outskirts of Taung‚ South Africa‚ my crew and I discovered two bones of an Australopithecus africanus which
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