Australopithecus garhi, 2.5 m.y.a., Ethiopia

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Introduction to Early Hominids
Australopithecus garhi, 2.5 m.y.a.,
Ethiopia Turnbaugh, Jurmain, Kilgore, and Nelson,
8th ed., p. 235
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
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note climactic change including the Ice Age
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The Pleistocene is frequently referred to as the
Ice Age
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Miocene
Pleistocene
Plocene
John E. Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man, 4th ed.
(NY Harper and Row, 1985), p. 101.
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Campbell Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p.
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Holocene
Pleistocene
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Homo habilis
Australopithecines
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• Australopithecines . . .
• including Paranthropus . . .
• (aka Australopithecus robustus)
• are also known as
• Plio - Pleistocene hominids

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
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Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
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Moderns
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
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Moderns
Neandertals
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
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Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Pleistocene
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
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Wurm glacial
Riss glacial
Mindel glacial
Gunz glacial
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North American Terms
Wisconsin glacial
Illinoian glacial
Kansan glacial
Nebraskan glacial
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Weischel glacial
Saale glacial
Elster glacial
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
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Early Hominids
Genus Species

• tugenensis
• ramidus
• anamensis
• afarensis
• africanus
• garhi
• aethiopicus
• boisei
• robustus

• Orrorin
• Ardipithecus
• Australopithecus
• Paranthropus

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http//www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanIDsa003arti
cleID0008EB7D-BC26-1138-BC2683414B7F0000
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Week 07
Video Search for the First Human
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Orrorin
Plio-Pleistocene hominid Australopithecus
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 103
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Mio-Plio-Pleistocene hominid
Plio-Pleistocene hominid Australopithecus
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 103