Choose at least two items in the section from under the subheading Miocene - Pliocene hominin and their Miocene - Pliocene hominin and their sites
- Rudapithecus hungaricus (2019 new research implying very early upright bipedalism)
- Orrorin
- Sahelanthropus “Toumai”
- Afar
- Ardipithecus
- anamensis
- (deyirmeda)
- (platyops)
- afarensis
- Laetoli
- “Lucy”
- Lightly built (“gracile”) australopithecines versus robust australopithecines (known by some as a separate genus called “Paranthropus”. )
- Australopithecus versus early Homo
Create a table comparing and contrasting the two or more specimens or sites you have chosen including in detail as many of the variables listed below
"SPECIFIC DATA
To consider when referencing or evaluating fossil specimens, or species attributes, or find location that are part of the paleoanthropological hominin record:
find history, (who, when, what, expectations, methods, subsequent studies?)
geographic and stratigraphic context,
dating (including methods and problems),
skeletal reconstruction issues and
other reconstruction issues with especial emphasis on:
locomotor
dietary
material culture
social organization
ecological reconstruction issues