Chapter 2 African Origins

Question 1

Brief contents

Answer 1

• Part 1: Evolution + Human origins
• Part 2: Primate ancestors of Apes + humans
• Part 3: Environmental background
• Part 4: Rise of earliest hominins
• Part 5: 1st Stone tools + The Oldowan
• Part 6: Food Procurement + Diet
• Part 7: Behavior of Oldowan hominins
• Part 8: Recent trends in approaches to the Oldowan

Question 2

Human evolutionary pathway

Answer 2

• Involve unique combination of traits
• In sequence:
  1. Bipedal locomotion (walking on 2 feet)
  2. Making stone tools
  3. Brain expansion