Anthropology Question!!!!?

Question

Within each of the following time intervals, how did the species differ in terms of their locomotor and dietary adaptations and body size or brain size – if they differed at all: Late Miocene (7-5 mya), Early Pliocene (5-3 mya), Middle Pliocene (2.5 mya) and Late Pliocene (2.4-1.8 mya) ?

Answer 1

Cake,

Since Anthropology is the study of man, and man was created by God and had only occupied the Earth for about 6,000 years, I don't believe the question should be; Within each of the following time intervals, how did the species differ in terms of their locomotor and dietary adaptations and body size or brain size – if they differed at all: Late Miocene (7-5 mya), Early Pliocene (5-3 mya), Middle Pliocene (2.5 mya) and Late Pliocene (2.4-1.8 mya) ?, but why am I here and what should I be doing to help my fellow man during their travel too.

Adam and Eve turned to the Deceiver in the Garden of Eden and EVE was tricked into sinning against the very God that had created her and her friend, Adam. Adam, being the first created one, questioned the act of Eve but fell into the Deceivers scheme also.  Since man was created in the image of God, (go look in the mirror and you will see your Heavenly father) and God is holy, He had to judge Adam and Eve for their disobedience. He did by casting them out of the Garden and giving labor to do for their keep. The Earth turned against them and the animals were no longer their friends, but were given over to fear and disgust.  Let's  chat later...

Answer 2

I can only give you hominin species locomotion, so if that's what you meant that here we go:

7-5 mya, we are unsure what level of bipedalism is present. Ardipithecus and Sahelanthropus show adaptation to climbing but have anteriorly placed foramen magnums indicating a shift towards bipedalism. Orrorin also had femoral neck placement that suggest some comfortability in walking. Likely frugivorous, small brain.

5-3 mya we get early gracile australopithecines. Most notably we have australopithecus afarensis which had shoulders oriented upwards (indicates climbing adaptation) and a stable habitual bipedalism. Some believe they walked fully upright, others believe they had bent hip and a bent knee walk. They ate less coarse vegetables and were between 30-60 kg (1 kg= 2.2 pounds). They had small brains 400-550 cc (chimps have 300-400 cc, modern humans have >1000cc)

2.5 mya we have early homo habilis/rudolfensis and robust australopithecines. homo likely had some limited meat in its wide diet. H. habilis has a large brain (>600cc), larger anterior and smaller posterior teeth (compared to Australopithecines) and a small body.

Robust australopithecines were slightly larger than gracile ones with slightly larger brains. Their robust cranium includes a sagittal crest, flared zygomatic arches, dished shape faces, megadontic molars with very small anterior teeth. All of these traits allow for strong chewing. Very coarse fiberous diet.

2.4-1.8 mya we get the rise of homo erectus/ergaster (at 1.8 mya) which was large (Turkana boy was estimated to have been 6 ft if he had matured). It has a large cranium (>800 cc), ate meat and a wide variety of other foods, and with certainty walked erectly as evidenced by a very human like femur, tibia.

P.S. You giving religious talk as this answer...you're not helping. Do you think someone bring up that answer in a class?