Fossil Evidence: The Human Evolutionary Journey |
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Our place in the animal kingdom | 1 |
Evolutionary theorythe modern synthesis | 9 |
Verification of the theory of evolution | 17 |
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Acheulian adaptation Africa Aldine-Atherton American Journal amino acids ancestral animals apes australopithecines behavior bipedalism bones brachiating brain Butzer canine carnivores cave cell changes characteristics Chicago chimpanzees Chou Kou Tien chromosomes cranial capacity cultural dating dental dryopithecines early hominids East editor Eocene evidence evolutionary faunal Fayum flakes forms fossil hominids fossil record gene genetic genus Gigantopithecus gorilla habitat hominid evolution Homo erectus Homo sapiens Howell human evolution hunters hunting Journal of Physical Kenya knuckle-walking Lake Turkana Leakey living male mammals mandible mate material Middle Pleistocene million years B.P. Miocene modern H molar monkeys morphological Mousterian Nature Neanderthal nonhuman primates Olduvai Gorge Paleocene Physical Anthropology Pilbeam pithecus pongids populations postcranial premolar primates protein Ramapithecus remains robust skeletal skeleton skull social species specimens stone suggests Swanscombe taxonomic teeth tion traits Turkana uncovered Upper Paleolithic Washburn Wolpoff York