Origins – the species. question the origin of a species – our species

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Origins – the species

questionthe origin of a species – our

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defining the species

bipedalismlarge braintool using‘human behaviors’languageconsciousnessculture

evolution and the antiquity of humankind

1859 Darwin – Origin of Species

1863 Charles Lyell – Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man

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the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?

the quest for fossil hominids – where to look?

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evidencesfossil skeletal materialtools and their findspotsbiomolecular survey of living populations

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phylogeny – drawing the human family tree

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disciplines

palaeoanthropologist – physical anthropologist with a speciality in some area of human anatomy, and/or an interest in ancient human behavior; in the latter they overlap with palaeolithic archaeologistspalaeoanthropology – aiming to construct a narrative of how humans came to be the way they arearchaeologist – responsible for field excavation and study of hominid artifacts (material culture)palaeontologist – studying nonhuman fossil vertebratespalaeobotanist, with palynologist, helping to reconstruct ancient environments and ecologies, as do geologistsgeochronologist – dating geological sequencesmolecular biologist – DNA extraction and sequencingcognitive scientist – cognition and behavior

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one or many origins - mitochondrial Eveand ‘out of Africa’

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