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Ancestors of Us All:
Recent Discoveries in
Human Origins and Evolution
Dr. John W. Kappelman
March 2, 2001
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Ancestors of Us All:
Title slide
Recent Discoveries in
Human Origins and Evolution
Dr. John Kappelman
Hominoids species
Chimp family group
Hs family group
Chimp threat
Nixon threat
HG campsite
Otters rock
Chimp tools
Finding fossils
Human
Gorilla
Human and gorilla skeletons
Brain size
Stone tools or Hs tool variety
Molecular genetics
Genetics humans and apes
Ancestors of Us All
Hominid Origins
Evolution of Bipedalism
Bodies and Brains
Origin of Modern Humans
Exit from Africa
Late Mio OW apes
Apes thru time
African hominid sites
Rift valley
Early hominids
Hominid phylogeny
Ancestors of Us All
Hominid Origins
Evolution of Bipedalism
Bodies and Brains
Origin of Modern Humans
Animation Eth boy walking
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “biped1.mov”
Hs and chimp walking
Carter and Regan
Muscle experiment
Lucy skeleton
Chimp and A Afar
Femur
Footprints
Stern on A afar characters
A afar versus Pt head pelvis
Cheetah on savanna
Aus in
trees
Ardipithecus ramidus
Ancestors of Us All
Hominid Origins
Evolution of Bipedalism
Bodies and Brains
Origin of Modern Humans
Hominid phylogeny
Robust Aus Homo
Animation: early Homo
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “1470al.mov”
Animation: robust Aus
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “oh5.mov”
Extinction of robust
Modern human body form
Cylinders
WT15000 boy skeleton
Hulk Hogan
KNM ER 1470 photograph
Animation: 1470
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “1470al.mov”
Eye orbit aperture
JK regression orbital area BM
JK BM plot thru time
Ahs femora broken X-section
close up
H n muscle
H n flesh recon
Animation: brain in the skull
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “skbrain.mov”
Mammalian brain and body
Leigh brains /out body
Gorilla He human brain outlines
BM plot thru time
Brains thru time
Klein tools sp thru time
Handax to blade
Animation: stone tool
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “clovis.mov”
Ancestors of Us All
Hominid Origins
Evolution of Bipedalism
Bodies and Brains
Origin of Modern Humans
Skulls
Animation: modern human
To view this movie, open the “Movies” folder on the
CD-ROM and double click on “cromagno.mov”
Figure of X-sections
Cortical thickness color
Brain size through time
Models of human origins
mtDNA OW map
OW migration
Australian fossil
Phylogeny
Gallery of hominids
Other teaching resources
Dr. John W. Kappelman
John Kappelman is a professor of Anthropology at the University of
Texas. He grew up on a family farm in southwestern Idaho and has been at
UT Austin since1988. Dr. Kappelman holds a B.S. degree in Geology and
Geophysics from Yale, and an A.M. in Anthropology and Ph.D. in
Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, both from
Harvard. Dr. Kappelman conducts research in hominoid evolution and
human origins and evolution, and his work combines both field
and laboratory research. He currently has field projects in Ethiopia and
Turkey, and has also worked in China, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Tanzania,
and even Montana. Dr. Kappelman teaches the introductory course in
physical anthropology as well as upper division undergraduate and
graduate courses in primate and human evolution, and has developed
several computer-based learning applications including Virtual
Laboratories for Physical Anthropology on CD ROM (Wadsworth
Publishing Co.),Vexams® (an interactive multimedia examination
program), and eSkeletons®, an internet site (www.eskeletons.org) for the
study of human and primate skeletons. Dr. Kappelman’s research has
received support from the National Science Foundation, the National
Geographic Society, and the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.