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Dr. John W. Kappelman

March 2, 2001

Ancestors of Us All:

Recent Discoveries in

Human Origins and Evolution

# 11

Title slideAncestors of Us All:

Recent Discoveries in

Human Origins and EvolutionDr. John Kappelman

Hominoids species

Chimp family group

Hs family group

Chimp threat

Nixon threat

HG campsite

Otters rock

Chimp tools

Finding fossils

Human and gorilla skeletonsHuman Gorilla

Brain size

Stone tools or Hs tool variety

Molecular genetics

Genetics humans and apes

Ancestors of Us All

Hominid OriginsEvolution 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 BipedalismBodies 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 BrainsOrigin 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.