human evoloution
Terms
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- Mousterian
- Tool culture of Neanderthals
- Paranthropus
- Genus of vegetarian hominins includes P.aethiopicus, robustus and boisei
- Wernicke's area
- Area in the brain concerned with recognition of speech
- Palaeolithic
- Old Stone Age
- Ape
- Includes gorilla, orangutan, gibbon and chimpanzee. No tail, large brain; brachiating knuckle walkers
- Olduwan
- Tool culture of Homo habilis
- Biological evolution
- evolution of bone, muscle, physiology and inherited behaviour
- Mesolithic
- Middle Stone Age; fishing and foraging for wild grains
- Upper Paleolithic
- Culture of the Homo sapiens
- Australopithecus
- Group of extinct omnivorous bipedal hominins. Includes A. anamensis, afarensis, africanus and others
- Burin
- Tool used for making holes in skins
- Foramen magnum
- Opening in the skull for attachment of the spinal cord
- Valgus Angle
- Carrying angle; the angle less than 180' between the femur and tibia. Indicates bipedalism
- Bipedalism
- Walking on two legs; Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo genuses
- Cultural Evolution
- Evolution of culture; weapons, tools, art, music and ritual
- Brachiation
- Swinging by arms as apes do
- Condyle
- Buttress of bone on the base of the femur. Humans have this on the outer base and apes have it on the inner. It prevents collapse of the knee inwards
- Quern stone
- Rounded stone used for grinding grains into flour
- Acheulia
- Tool culture of Homo erectus and archaic H. sapiens. Pear shaped hand axes
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age; agriculture
- Broca's Area
- Area of brain that produces speech; as it develops leaves an indent on the cranium cavity
- Zygomatic arch
- Bone structure on side of cheeck through which the chewing muscles go
- Prognathism
- Having a protruding muzzle
- Sexual dimorphism
- Where the male is larger and has structural differences from the female