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The Last Ape Standing
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It is therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee: and as these two species are now man’s nearest allies, it is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere.
-Darwin (1871) The Descent of Man
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Mt-DNA Primate Tree
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Our Living Sisters
Pan
Gorilla
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html
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Living Asian Apes
Gibbon (Hyalobates) Orangutan (Pongo)
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Apes in the Primates
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Features that distinguish the Hominins from other living apes
• Bipedal Locomotion
Figure 1 from Richmond, B. G., D. R. Begun, and D. S. Strait. 2001. Origin of human bipedalism: The knuckle-walking hypothesis revisited. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 44:70-105.
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Bipedalism
• Freed the hands and allowed more manipulative capabilities
• Led to a higher thermoregulatory efficiency
• Widened feeding potential
• Reduced predation pressures
• Was more energetically efficient mode of locomotion
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Oldest evidence of bipedalism
70 footprints in volcanic ash dated to 3.6 MYA, Laetoli, Tanzania, discovered by a team led by Mary Leakey in 1978
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Footprint experiment (Raichlen et al. 2010)
A. Normal gait in sand (H.sapiens)
B. Bent-knee, bent-hip gait in sand (similar to walk of apes)
C. Footprint from Laetoli, Tanzania
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Features that distinguish the Hominins from other living apes• Neoteny
– Nakedness– Large Brain Size– Reduced Dentition
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The Neotenic Apes
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Hair loss and lice
Summarized in Reed et al. 2007. Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice. BMC Biology 5:7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-7
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Phylogeny of some living primates and their lice
Also from Reed et al. (2007)
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Tales of the Lice
• Human head louse vs chimp louse (how long ago we diverged) ~6-7MYA
• Human head louse vs human body louse (how long ago we began to wear clothes) ~50-100KYA
• Human pubic louse vs gorilla body louse (how long ago we began to lose fur to patches of hair) ~3-4MYA
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Large Brain
Potts 2011 Navarette et al. 2011
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Reduced dentition
Image from Anthropological Curiosities.
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Features that distinguish the Hominins from other apes
• Vocal Communication– Lower larynx– Fox P2 gene
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http://www.voice.northwestern.edu/VOICEBOX/Larynx.htm
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PBS NOVA
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Proconsul
Likely a sister to the apes with a mix of ape-monkey characters14-23 MYAAfrica
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Dryopithecus
Early ape15-9 MYAAfrica, Eurasia
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Ardipithecus
• Africa• Brain ~300-350cc• 120 (f) cm tall• 50 (f) kg• ~6.0 – 4.2 MYA
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Miocene Epoch
• 23-5.3 MYA• Epoch of ape radiation (>100
species of apes in the latter part of the Miocene)
• They ranged though Africa, Europe, and Asia
• The end of the Miocene saw the separation between the African Apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas) and the Hominin Apes
• Africa moved northward and formed the Mediterranean Sea, which dried out multiple times.
Data from NASA, USGS, NOAA
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Pliocene Epoch
• 5.3-2.5 MYA• Epoch of bipedal ape
radiation.• They ranged though Africa• Gracile and robust lines• Pliocene relatively warm
Data from NASA, USGS, NOAA
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Human PhylogenyThe Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html
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(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern(B) Australopithecus africanus, 2.6 My(C) Australopithecus africanus, 2.5 My(D) Homo habilis, 1.9 My(E) Homo habilis, 1.8 My(F) Homo rudolfensis, 1.8 My(G) Homo erectus, 1.75 My
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), 1.75 My(I) Homo heidelbergensis, 300,000 - 125,000 y(J) Homo neanderthalensis, 70,000 y(K) Homo neanderthalensis, 60,000 y(L) Homo neanderthalensis, 45,000 y(M) Homo sapiens, 30,000 y(N) Homo sapiens, modern
http://www.talkingorigins.com
Hominin Series
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Australopithecus afarensis
• Africa• Brain 375-550 cc• 107 (f)-152 (m) cm tall• 29 (f) – 42 (m) kg• ~3.0-3.9 MYA
British Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Museum
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Australopithecus africanus
• Africa• Brain 420-500 cc• 110 (f)-140 (m) cm tall• 30 (f) - 41 (m) kg• ~2.4-2.8 MYABritish Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum
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Paranthropus robustus
• Africa• Brain ~530cc• 110 (f)-130 (m) cm tall• 32 (f) – 40 (m) kg• ~1.0 – 2.0 MYA
http://www.maropeng.co.za
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Pleistocene Epoch
• 2.5-0.012 MYA• Appearance and radiation of
Homo.• They ranged though Africa and
emerged into the rest of the earth.
• Global climates extremely unsettled and variable
Data from NASA, USGS, NOAA
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Homo habilis
http://macscience.files.wordpress.com
• Africa• Brain ~500-800 cc• 100 (f) – 135 (m) cm tall• 32 (f) – 37 (m) kg• ~1.44-2.3 MYA
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Olduwan stone tools in Ethiopia
• 2.6 -1.8 MYA• Chipped pebbles and
choppers, usually lava• Likely made by H. habilis
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Homo erectus
• Africa, Eurasia• ~Brain 750-1225 cc• 145 (f) – 185 (m) cm tall• 40 (f) – 68 (m) kg• ~0.3-1.8 MYA
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html
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Range of H. erectus
• Evidence for controlled use of fire
• Acheulean tools (1.7-0.1 MYA)
http://anthro.palomar.edu
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Homo heidelbergensis
• Africa, Eurasia• Brain ~1100-1400 cc• 157 (f) - 175 (m) cm tall• 51 (f) – 62 (m) kg• ~0.2-0.6 MYA
Smithsonian Institution
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Homo neanderthalensis
• Eurasia• Brain ~1100-1400 cc• 155 (f) – 164 (m) cm tall• 54 (f) – 64 (m) kg• ~0.03-0.3 MYA
Neanderthal Museum
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Range of the Neanderthals
http://www.rhesusnegative.net
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Behaviors of H. neanderthalensis
• Scavengers and up close spear hunting of large animals (see Figure)
• Relatively complex stone tools (Mousterian, see Figure)
• Tools from wood, bone, tusks, and antlers
• Evidence of burials and ceremony
• Possible verbal communication
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Neanderthal vs rodeo trama pat-terns (redrawn Berger & Trinkhaus
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Homo floresiensis
• Asia (Indonesia)• Brain ~380-417 cc• ~106 (f?) cm tall• 30 (f?) kg• ~0.013-0.095 MYA
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Homo sapiens
• Africa to all land surfaces• ~1350 cc (975-1499)• US ave: 162 (f) – 175.8 (m) cm
tall• US ave: 74 (f) – 86.4 (m) kg• ~present-0.2 MYA
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Homo sapiens• Appeared ~200,000 years
ago with a suite of behaviors similar to neanderthals
• Likely in small populations (~140) with a total number of 100,000
• Bottleneck reduced to ~10,000 individuals
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Theories regarding the origin of Homo sapiens
Recent Out of Africa– More consistent with
the genetic data• Mitochondrial• Y-chromosome• Genetic variability
– Consistent with language families
– Neanderthals a different species
Multiregional Hypothesis– Explains racial
differences by isolation and periodic mixing between populations
– Connects H. erectus directly to H. sapiens
– Neanderthal a step in the evolution of modern humans
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Genetic variation in Homo sapiens
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Classic archaeologically-accessible evidence of behavioral modernity includes:
• finely-made tools• fishing• evidence of long-distance
exchange or barter among groups
• systematic use of pigment (such as ochre) and jewelry for decoration or self-ornamentation
• figurative art (cave paintings, petroglyphs, figurine)
• game playing and music
• foods being cooked and seasoned instead of being consumed in the raw
• burial
Calvin. 2003. A Brief History of Mind; Stringer. 2011. Origin of our Species
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Homo sapiens, the generalist
Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution
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Why are we the last ape standing?
• We were lucky• We outcompeted the other bipedal apes• We killed the other bipedal apes
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