ANTH1102 Lecture 15 I Origins of Modern Humans A Beginning of Homo B Migration Theories C Neanderthals Outline of Current Lecture I Origins of Modern Humans continued A Neanderthal continued B Hobbits of Flores Current Lecture Neanderthals evidence to how they lived larger brain size than modern Homo sapiens tooth wear evidences use of teeth as tools hyoid bone presence evidences capacity to talk burial pits and corpse positioning suggest care and purpose hearths and weathered skins suggest homes and complex sociality ancestral divergence occurred about 800KYA Neanderthal DNA is not in ours skeletal and cultural evidence ancestry adaptation evolution Neanderthals likely coexisted with modern Homo Sapiens Hobbits of Flores LB1 found 30yo woman mix of bipedal and arboreal characteristics really small body and brain size not pygmy dwarf or underdeveloped most likely island dwarfism possible late surviving Homo erectus
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