history Flashcards
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Definition of bipedalism?
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Walks on two legs
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What are the 3 steps to relating apes to humans?
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Step 1. Australopithecus=is a group of extinct hominids, the gracile australopithecines, closely related to humans=Lucy
Step 2. Homo Habilis(handy man)=2MYA our “ancestors” started making stone tools. So we say that this is a start to a new era in human history.-the Palaeolithic era, or old Stone Age
Step 3. Homo Erectus(upright man)-1MYA
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Why was fire important.
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We can cook, have light and move to cooler places and stay warm
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Change to becoming bipedalism
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Hair loss, sweat less, cooler to walk upright
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Why did Neanderthals die out?
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- We killed them-saw them as a threat-genocide
- they starved to death, or froze
- We killed them accidentally- to hard for them to compete for food
- Disease
- Something to do with birth?
