Chapter 5 Discussion & Essay Topics

What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us about Human Origins?
  1. Explain the advantages of bipedalism for hominin mobility.
  1. Discuss the main physical differences between robust and gracile australopiths.
  1. What evidence do we have for the development and evolution of the concept of human culture?
  1. What impact did the earliest stone tools have on early Homo evolution and development?
  1. Explain the impacts of new tool technologies and the use of fire on Homo erectus’s mode of life and evolution.
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