A Walk Through Hominid Evolution Time 23 July 2001 Plio Pleistocene hominid Australopithecus Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 183 Time 23 July 2001 Time 23 July 2001 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus http www sciam com article cfm chanID sa003 articleID 0008EB7D BC26 1138 BC2683414B7F0000 Week 07 Video Search for the First Human http exn ca hominids wherethebonesare cfm http exn ca hominids wherethebonesare cfm Time 23 July 2001 p 57 Search for the First Human A Secrets of the Dead Special Time 23 July 2001 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Time 23 July 2001 p 57 Taung Child Lucy Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba 5 8 mya Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba 5 8 mya Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Time 23 July 2001 Time 23 July 2001 Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 234 Australopithecines Australopithecus ramidus Ardipithecus ramidus Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Au st ra lo pi th ec in es Time 23 July 2001 p 57 Time 23 July 2001 Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 234 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Time 23 July 2001 p 57 Time 23 July 2001 Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present 1975 1976 Lucy and The First Family Hadar Ethiopia Site 333 on the Awash River Australopithecus afarensis 4 3 mya p 232 Hadar Ethiopia Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 229 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 251 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present 1976 Footprints Laetoli Tanzania 3 7 mya Laetoli Tanzania Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 229 Mary Leakey p 232 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Cranial Capacity Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 234 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Time 23 July 2001 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 251 Transvaal Humankind Emerging 7th edition p 199 Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present 1924 Taung Child Taung South Africa Australopithecus africanus Raymond Dart 3 0 2 0 mya Taung Humankind Emerging 7th edition p 199 Humankind Emerging 7th edition p 240 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present 1924 Taung Child problems was found by miners was a child 3 4 yrs old Or 6 what did the adults look like was a one of a kind find Methods We can learn a lot from the Hensel Twins and others a few hundred pairs of conjoined twins are born each year conjoined twins survive in about 1 50 000 60 000 births they appear about once in every 100 000 births but more than half of them are stillborn and one in three live for only a few days Jani Farrell Roberts author of Glitter and Greed The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel The Seven Days of My Creation Tales of Magic Sex and Gender Methods and Balaji the Reincarnation of Hindu God Baby with tail believed to be the reincarnation of Hindu god The 11 month old boy has been named Balaji or Bajrangbali another name for monkey faced Lord Hanuman He is reported to have a 4 in tail caused by genetic mutations during the development of the foetus There have been other cases of babies born with tails A report appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1982 by Dr Fred Ledley His paper entitled Evolution and the Human Tail concerned a baby born with a 2 in growth on its back Selected Major Discoveries Events Ca 1850 Present 1936 Australopithecus africanus Sterkfontein South Africa in the Transvaal Region 3 2 mya Sterkfonetein Humankind Emerging 7th edition p 199 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 3 5 mya Australopithecus suggesting our ancestors were less chimp like than we thought Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Australopithecus garhi 2 5 mya Time 23 July 2001 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Time 23 July 2001 saggital crest disharmonic face Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present 1985 The Black Skull Australopithecus aethiopicus KNM WT 17000 Lake Turkana East Africa 2 5 mya The Black Skull WT 17000 Turnbaugh Jurmain Kilgore and Nelson 8th ed p 237 http www archaeologyinfo com australopithecusaethiopicus htm Lake Turkana East Africa Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 229 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Early Hominids Genus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecu s Paranthropus Species tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Time 23 July 2001 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 251 Olduvai Gorge Tanzania Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 229 Olduvai Gorge Bhavini Charadva The main gorge at Olduvai Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 208 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 246 Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 8th ed p 248 Selected Major Discoveries Events ca 1850 Present e g 1959 Zinj Zinjanthropus aka Australopithecus boisei Olduvai Gorge