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36 Cards in this Set
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Olduwan Tools
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Tools made by Homo habilis and possibly Australopithecusgarhi.
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Acheulean tools
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Tools made by Homo erectus and requiring more skill and learning.
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Mousterian tools
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Tools made by Homo neanderthalensis.
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Solutrean tools
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Tools made by Homo sapiens in Europe that often exhibit otre' passe' flaking.
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Clovis or Folsum
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Stone tool used by big game hunters in North America at the end of the pleistocene ice age.
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Australopithecus afarensis
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Don Johanson's Lucy.
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Homo erectus
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Peking Man, Turkana Boy, and Java Man.
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Australopithecus africanus
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"Mrs." Ples and the Taung Baby
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Homo sapiens
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Cro-Magnon
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Kenyanthropus platyops
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Flat faced man of Kenya
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Homo erectus
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First hominin to leave Africa in significant numbers.
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Homo habilis or Australopithecus garhi
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First hominin to use tools.
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Homo sapiens
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First hominin that is known to have painted complex scenes on cave walls and think symbolically.
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Homo neanderthalensis
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First hominin to make music.
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Homo erectus
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First hominin to use fire.
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Darwin's Carrying Hypothesis
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Bipedalism developed so that females could carry babies
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Lovejoy's Provisioning Hypothesis
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Bipedalism developed so that males could provision females and produce more offspring
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Rodman and McHenry's Patchy Forest Hypothesis
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Bipedalism developed as an energetically efficiency way to move between grassland and forest.
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Out of Africa Hypothesis
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Homo sapiens replaced other existing species as it moved out of Africa and across the continents.
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Multiregional Continuity Hypothesis
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Homo sapiens evolved separately in each region from existing populations through interbreeding and parallel evolution within the continents.
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domestic dog
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responsible for the development of agriculture and livestock domestication
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bipedalism
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This form of locomotion has these traits: a wide, short pelvis. A big toe in line with the other toes and an angled thigh bone.
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The Hobbit
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Nickname for Homo floresiensis found on an Indonesian Island and thought to have survived up until around 13,000 years ago.
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Olduvai Gorge
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"Birthplace of Man"
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Australopithecine footprints
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The Laetoli site in Tanzania is famous for this.
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Phylogeny
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a hypothesis about the evolutionary history of taxonomic groups.
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chenopodeum (quinoa)
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first cultivated wild food
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The first domesticated foods
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wheat, barley, rye, rice, and corn
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dogs |
first domesticated animal
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grey wolf
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canine ancestorof all modern dogs
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Directed evolution
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intentional selection of traits
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Pleistocene
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larger brains developing and tool use (Homo)
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Holocene
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10,000 years ago, warming trend andagriculture |
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Anthropocene
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world climate change caused by Homo sapiens
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Miocene
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Hominoids (apes)
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Pliocene
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bipedal primates-hominids
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