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Introducing Anthropology: An Integrated Approach, 2/e
Michael A. Park, Central Connecticut State University

The Identity and Nature of Our Species
Anatomy and Physiology: The Bipedal Primate

Learning Objectives

Chapter 5: Anatomy

  1. You should be aware of how climatic and environmental changes led to new hominid adaptive responses.

  2. You should know the order in which hominids developed their unique features.

  3. You need to know the affects a larger brain had on the development of the family Hominidae.

  4. You should know when H. erectus, Neandertals, and archaic H. sapiens made their appearance in the fossil record.

  5. You should be familiar with the arguments used by the lumpers and splitters in their ongoing debate over the number of hominid species.