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- 4 0 A comparison of a gorilla, suited to walking on legs and knuckles, and a human, adapted for upright walking.
- 4 1 A diagram showing the leg and foot movements involved in bipedalism.
- 4 2 A comparison of knee joints of humans.
- 17 0 The skull and jaw of the infamous Piltdown Man.
- 5 0 Creatures walking upright like Lucy left their footprints in ash at Laetoli, 4 million years ago.
- 5 1 Creatures walking upright like Lucy left their footprints in ash at Laetoli, 4 million years ago.
- 5 2 Creatures walking upright like Lucy left their footprints in ash at Laetoli, 4 million years ago.
- 6 0 Comparison of the skull of Homo habilis with those of its contemporary relatives,
- 6 1 Australopithecus africanus,
- 6 2 and A. robustus
- 7 0 Louis and Mary Leakey hunted for hominid fossils in East Africa for 30 years before their persistence was rewarded.
- 8 0 The remarkably well preserved skeleton of a Homo erectus (ergaster) boy from Nariokotome in East Africa, dated 1.6 mya.
- 9 0 A reconstruction of the shelter constructed at Terra Amata in France around 300,000 years ago.
- 10 0 A diagram of the modern human brain, showing areas thought to be related to speech.
- 11 0 Stone tools from Torralba, a site where early hominids related to H. erectus may have trapped elephants.
- 12 0 A beautiful handaxe from Hoxne (England). Often pains were taken to make tools attractive as well as functional.
- 16 0 An elephant trapped in swampy ground at Olduvai was butchered by hominids who made and discarded tools here.
- 18 0 Skulls at Zhoukoudian from which the brain was removed raise the question of cannibalism and its significance.
- 13 0 Studies of this yew-wood object from Clacton (England) have shown that it was probably a thrusting spear.
- 19 0 Early Homo scavenged game killed by carnivores and developed simple tools to cut through the tough animal hides.
- 14 0 Holes in this Australopithecus skull exactly match the canine teeth of the leopard who must have eaten him.
- 20 0 Scholars differ in their opinions of how many species there were and which developed into which.
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