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**INVESTIGATING VARIOUS ‍‍‍HOMININS ‍‍‍** **OR** What does it mean to be human?

The Human Story
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PART A- Individual Research (submit data grid)
You have been allocated a hominin (human-like ancestor) to research. Use this [|DataGrid_homininresearch.doc] to help organise the questions and give evidence of sources where data was collected from. Click here to find resources you should use to help collect information. __**Do not rely**__ on google only!!!! The data grid should be filled in and summarised in your own words using dot points. The questions you need to research are listed below in bold. Some subquestions are listed to help you:

//**a) What can you tell me about the finding of the skull?**//
 * Who discovered this fossil?
 * Where was the fossil discovered?
 * Is there anything contentious about this fossil?

//**b) What was inferred from the skull findings? **//
 * When did the they live on earth?
 * Where on the earth did they live?
 * What were the conditions that they lived in like?

//**c) Describe the physical characteristics of the hominin skull found by archaelogists.**//
 * Where was their foramen magnum situated? (hole in skull for the spine)
 * What was the average size of their brain?
 * Did they have a sagittal crest? (boney ridge on top of cranium)
 * What was the shape of their forehead?
 * Did they have a browridge?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What was the shape of their chin?

//**d) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What did they eat? **//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What shape was their dental arcade? (straight-sided or parabolic?)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What was the angle of their incisors? (slanted out or vertical?)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What was the length of their canines?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What do these features tell you about the foods they ate?

//**e) What did they look like?**//
 * What other bones were found with the skull?
 * From what they found what do they think they look like. (Pictures of this will be useful)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Did they walk upright or on all fours? What characteristics explain this?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Did they have an opposable thumb? What was their hand dexterity like?

//**d) Find out how they communicated with each other? (extension)**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Did they communicate with one another?

//**At the bottom of each column summarise your main findings to the question. e.g. for What did they look like? - You may use an annotated diagram to explain this. If there are any inconsistencies note this in the summary. If little information can be found suggest some readsons why. Report on the interesting things discovered about your hominin.**//

**PART B - Enter information about your hominin on wiki.**
//1. Find other students with same hominin.// //2. Allocate roles to each member. (see project management sheet)// //3. In groups discuss the information you have researched with other members of your group.// //4. Record the main findings on the Page Storyboard template you have been given. Organise it so you know where to put it on wiki. You can use structure on wiki or your own.//

//5.// //Indicate who is responsible for uploading each bit of information on the wiki. Record the tasks on project management task sheet and identify when they need to be done by. This will be completed for homework.//

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Australopithecus afarensis // ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Australopithecus boisei // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Oldoway.rtf] // ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Australopithecus africanus // || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homo erectus // <span style="background-color: #dc2e2e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[|Broken Hill.rtf] <span style="background-color: #dc2e2e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[|Sinanthropus.rtf] || //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homo habilis // || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homo heidelbergensis ||= //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homo Neanderthalensis // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|La Chapelle.rtf] // ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">// Homo floresiensis // || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cro-Magnon // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Cro- Magnon.rtf] // || // Homo rudolfensis // ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[[image:hominidevolution/A.afarensis.jpg width="154" height="127"]]
 * = <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[image:hominidevolution/H.hiedelbergensis.jpg width="153" height="132"]]
 * = <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[image:hominidevolution/H.hiedelbergensis.jpg width="153" height="132"]]