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Essay Questions
Chapter 6: The Earliest Hominines
- Following Becky Sigmon’s research, how do you think cognition
and narrative acted to humanize early hominid populations? How has cognition
changed from the Australopithecines onward? What evidence do we have
for this?
- How can we infer bipedalism from the fossil record? What was the significance
of bipedalism for the early hominines?
- What are some of the main disadvantages to bipedalism?
- How have new fossil discoveries like Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Kenyanthropus
platyops and Orrorin tugenensis changed our interpretation of the fossil
record?
- How does the Original Study "The Naked and the Bipedal"
compare in its analysis to what you have read in the chapter?
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