Human Evolution lab

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Human Evolution lab

• Introduction to Paleoanthropology

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Objectives

• Learn about Primates, hominids and hominoids.
• Learn about cladistics and Phylogenies
• Create a human Phylogeny using the fossil
  reproductions in lab by
• Collecting data from the skulls
• Learning significant characters for comparison
• Construct a cladogram from your data
• Observe how different conclusions may be made
  from the same data set.
• View a video recreation of significant stages of
  human evolution

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Orangutan and Gorilla
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Brain case features
Facial features
Dental features
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Geographic Regions and Ages of the Fossils

• 1- East Africa, 3.9-3.0 MYA
• 2 East Africa, 1.9-1.7 MYA
• 3 Africa, Asia, and Europe, 1.8 MYA-0.3 MYA
• 4 East Africa, 2.3-1.6 MYA
• 5 Europe and the Middle East (West Asia), 0.2
  -0.03 MYA
• 6 Africa, Asia, and Europe, 0.6-0.1 MYA
• 7 South Africa, 3.0-2.3 MYA
• 8 Africa, Asia, and Europe (and later
  worldwide), 0.15 MYA-present

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Australopithecus bosie Homo erectus
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Neanderthal
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FACIAL SLOPE
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Facial slope
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Facial slope
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Supraorbital bridge
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Supraorbital bridge
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Forehead
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Forehead
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Sagittal crest
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Foramen magnum
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CRANIAL MODULE
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Cranial Module- length
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Cranial Module- depth
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Cranial Module- width
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Nasal bones - arched
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Nasal bones - flat
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Prognathism
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Postorbital constriction
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Facial width
Zygomatic arch
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Shape of Dental Arcade
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Canines - above chewing surface
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Canines - below chewing surface
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Incisors angled out
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Incisors- vertical
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Tooth row length2 premolars 3 molars
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Diastema gap for long canine