Origins – the species. question the origin of a species – our species.
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Origins – the species
questionthe origin of a species – our
species
the species
anoth
er
uniq
ue s
peci
es?
defining the species
bipedalismlarge braintool using‘human behaviors’languageconsciousnessculture
evolution and the antiquity of humankind
1859 Darwin – Origin of Species
1863 Charles Lyell – Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
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97 John F
rere
Bou
cher
de P
ert
hes
1859
Had
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pia
the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?
the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?
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evidencesfossil skeletal materialtools and their findspotsbiomolecular survey of living populations
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phylogeny – drawing the human family tree
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palaeoanthropologist – physical anthropologist with a speciality in some area of human anatomy, and/or an interest in ancient human behavior; in the latter they overlap with palaeolithic archaeologistspalaeoanthropology – aiming to construct a narrative of how humans came to be the way they arearchaeologist – responsible for field excavation and study of hominid artifacts (material culture)palaeontologist – studying nonhuman fossil vertebratespalaeobotanist, with palynologist, helping to reconstruct ancient environments and ecologies, as do geologistsgeochronologist – dating geological sequencesmolecular biologist – DNA extraction and sequencingcognitive scientist – cognition and behavior
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one or many origins - mitochondrial Eveand ‘out of Africa’
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