Compared to Homo erectus, the cranium of the earliest premodern Homo sapiens exhibit
a. a lower forehead
b. a more angled occipital region
c. a smaller average cranial capacity
d. a more rounded braincase
e. a less vertical nose
Question 2
What can be said about the dispersal of Middle Pleistocene hominins?
a. Discoveries of their presence come from North America
b. For the first time Europe became more permanently and densely occupied
c. Presence in Asia is noticeably lacking
d. Unlike their H. erectus predecessors they were widely distributed in the Old World
e. Africa was no longer a central area of hominin occupation
Lungs: RUL = Right Upper Lobe, RML = Right Middle Lobe, RLL = Right Lower Lobe, LUL = Left Upper Lob
Muscles of the lower extremity.
The site of Dmanisi has produced some of the earliest H. erectus outside of Africa.
A complete cranium of Au. Afarensis from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows a prognathic face and a small brainc
The skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis is argued to be the earliest of the hominins and one of only
Dali, a Chinese archaic Homo sapiens.