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Anthro 101: Human Biological Evolution Lecture 14: Origins of the Modern Human Lifestyle Prof. Kenneth Feldmeier
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Where We At?
• Did you go over the youtube? • Dec. 10 Final!!!!!! • Next Week……Homo Sapiens
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HomoEarly
Hom
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Oldowan tools
H. e
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Modern bipedality Reduced sexual dimorphism Acheulean tools Beginning of big game hunting 1st to leave Africa 1st Controlled use of fire
H. h
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H. n
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H. s
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Modernized brain Complex tools Big game hunters
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Stocky Bodies Complex behavior Interbred with H. sapiens
Art, Language, Ritual Diverse diet & tools Only surviving hominin
1.8 mya
2.5 mya
800 k
ya
300 kya
200 kya
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Using modern foragers as a model to understand the importance of complex foraging technologies
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Human foragers exploit a diverse array of resources
Collected foods: !!!!!!!
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Human foragers exploit a diverse array of resources
Collected foods: !Extracted foods: !!!
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Human foragers exploit a diverse array of resources
Collected foods: !Extracted foods: !Hunted foods:
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Humans rely more on foods that are hard to get than other apes do
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Collected Hunted
ChimpanzeesHuman Foragers
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Human foragers use wide range of prey and techniques
• Prey • Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish !
• Techniques are variable • Prey type • Season • Snares, traps, calls, tracking • cooperation !
• Processing • Butchery • Smash bones • Cook • Process plant foods too
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Obtaining extractive resources requires skill, strength, and detailed knowledge
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For humans, foraging technology takes years to learn
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Complexity of foraging tasks may favor bigger brain & slower development
• Learn skills & knowledge • long period of learning • Long period for practice
!Favors • larger brain • Slow development • Longer reliance on parents
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Long juvenile period may favor longer life span• Longer childhood delays start
of reproduction • Big investment in growth &
development (of self) • Payoff from this longer
period of development will be greater if allowed to accumulate over longer life span
• Longer lifespan means bigger payoff for early investment
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High skill tasks favor division of labor and food sharing• Foraging tasks hard to master ==> specialization • Specialization ==> food sharing • In modern foraging societies
• Women mainly forage • Men mainly hunt
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Resource exchange is extensive in human groups
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Requirements for successful reliance on high variance food: Reciprocal Altruism
• Live in large enough groups of hunters to reduce risk and have enough sharing partners
• Have cognitive skill to keep track of partners & history of sharing !
• Be able to prevent people from taking and not giving
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Food sharing + division of labor may favor reduced sexual dimorphism
• Men produce extra calories • support a women & their kids
• If kids need males’ contribution • selection favors investing males • selection favors male-female bonds
• Reduced male-male competition • Favors reduced sexual dimorphism
Efe man with newborn
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What does this tell us about foraging in the Pliocene era?
• Contemporary foragers rely on complex foraging • Complex foraging linked to important features of human life
history • Did Oldowan toolmakers have complex foraging strategies?
• Toolmaking suggests they at least began to • First step in transition from ape-like hominins towards more human-like
hominins • Morphology and behavior of later species can be explained by this innovation
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Did H. erectus have a more modern human lifestyle?
• Reduced sexual dimorphism (Yes) • Less male-male competition? • Reduced polygyny, tendency toward pair bonds? !
• Infant (& adults) brains larger than earlier species (Yes) • Altricial infants - dependent on parental care • Rapid brain growth after birth, slower maturation rate (Yes) !
• High energy demand on mothers from altricial infants • Selection for paternal investment? • Selection for menopause & female-female cooperation?
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The transition to (later) Homo marked by:
• Increased reliance on hunted meat and extracted foods !
• Greater reliance on (more complex) tools !
• Longer juvenile period to learn foraging and tool use techniques; longer life span !
• Greater paternal investment à increased pair bonding, reduced dimorphism !
• Origins of transmitted culture (eg foraging & tool making techniques)