Summary Of "The Origin Of Humankind" By Richard Leakey: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

In 1974, less than a year after its inhabitants left the site, excavator Diane Glifford carefully began to uncover a camp on the shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The hominids were modern humans, members of the Dassanetch tribe, a pastoral Cushitic people, which inhabit the northeast bank of Lake Turkana and extend into Ethiopia. The reason modern living camps are studied is that this exercise helps to better interpret and understand the scant evidence that appears from ancient camps. In addition, the link between then and now is particularly relevant due to the remarkable similarity of scenery between this camp and an old settlement located a few kilometers further north, along the shore. There, more than two million years ago on the edge of the lake, a small band of hominids established a temporary base, the same as the Dassanetch group. The discoveries made at that site and the hundreds of finds made in neighboring camps along the eastern bank of Lake Turkana are combined with fossils exhumed by research teams further north in Ethiopia and further south in Tanzania. and they help transform our vision of the path traveled by human evolution. The fossils that are discovered in Africa provide information to be able to draw a picture of the evolutionary history of our ancestors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201103910

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of The Origin Of Humankind By Richard Leakey

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

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SUMMARY OF THE ORIGIN OF HUMANKIND BY RICHARD LEAKEY

First edition. October 4, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201103910

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THE ORIGIN OF HUMANKIND

In 1974, less than a year after its inhabitants left the site, excavator Diane Glifford began to uncover a well-established camp on the shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The hominids were modern humans, members of the Dassanetch tribe, a pastoral Cushitic people, which inhabit the northeast bank of Lake Turkana and extend into Ethiopia. The reason modern living camps are studied is that this exercise helps to better interpret and understand the scant evidence that appears from ancient camps. In addition, the link between then and now is particularly relevant due to the remarkable similarity of scenery between this camp and an old settlement located a few kilometers further north, along the shore. There, more than two million years ago on the edge of the lake, a small band of hominids established a temporary base, the same as the Dassanetch group. The discoveries made at that site and the hundreds of finds made in neighboring camps along the eastern bank of Lake Turkana are combined with fossils exhumed by research teams further north in Ethiopia and further south in Tanzania. and help transform our vision of the path traveled by human evolution. The fossils that are discovered in Africa provide information to be able to draw a picture of the evolutionary history of our ancestors.

The history of human evolution two or three million years ago involved four main characters: the first of them was the hominid, of whose descendants we are. That being was over five feet tall, stood upright, and the size of the brain was two-thirds of the average human brain today. The other three remaining are decreasing in stature and brain size. The only guide to labeling fossils is the anatomy of fossilized and generally fragmented bones, for which the output is the statistical analysis of bone shapes and measurements. Starting with the two in the middle, as they are easier, we find Australopithecus africanus and for the most robust being we use the specific name of bosei. Both belong to the same genus due to anatomical similarities, but the difference in nomenclature is made by a difference in behavior. This creature was on the march towards modern human beings, homo sapiens-sapiens. The last on our list is the oldest ancestor of all, the Ramapithecus, dated from nine to twelve million years ago. From there a huge fossil void opens up until about four million years ago. If we took a leap forward in time to three-quarters of a million years ago, we would see that that group is reduced again to a single representative, Homo erectus.

Ramapithecus lived in what is now Europe, Africa and Asia, and Homo erectus occupied the same geographic areas, but the period in which different types of hominids coexisted occurred exclusively in Africa. Fossil hunters found a fossil skull dating from 1470 at a site in eastern Turkana in 1972. This discovery turned out to be an important event in the emergence of a new picture of human evolution, as it confirmed earlier ideas regarding human evolution. evolutionary path, ideas that seemed reasonable based on a biologically sound view of human prehistory, but lacked the important proof of a reasonably complete specimen. But, in turn, the 1470 fossil has a predecessor, an individual that was found in early 1961 in the Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania. This finding was important because although the cranial box was not complete, it was evident from its size and shape