Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To explain: The two fundamental behaviors of pre-australopithecines and to summarize the anatomical characteristics found in the early hominin species indicating these behaviors each.

Introduction: Hominin is a term used frequently to indicate the human lineage’s extinct members. The pre-australopithecines were found to be the earliest hominins according to the fossil record and they lived around 7 to 4 million years ago.

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