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  • To describe the challenges faced by human ancestors when leaving Africa and the solutions to those challenges.

  • To describe technological developments of the Pleistocene including the Acheulean tool industry.

  • To identify the information about Homo erectus derived from sites in Asia.

  • To identify information about Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis from sites in Europe.

  • To describe the major environmental changes that occurred during the Pleistocene.

  • To explain how paleoanthropologists evaluate the diets of hominids.







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