History 8 Video Notes Walking with Cavemen

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Answer each question with notes you took from the video. Do not forget to find an external link for additional information!

1. What caused the change from jungle to grasslands to occur in Africa?

2. What do teeth fossils tell us about the diet of ''P. boisei''?

3. Why were ''P. boisei'' considered specialists?

4. What was the probable cause of the extinction of the ''P. boisei''?

5. How much bigger was ''Homo habilis'' brains than ''P. boisei''?

6. Why did ''H. habilis'' go extinct?

7. What does ''Homo ergaster'' mean? When did they first evolve?

8. What adaptations to the hot environment have appeared in ''Homo ergaster''?

9. Why did ''Homo ergaster'' go extinct?

10. When and why did ''Neanderthal'' go extinct?

11. What does ''Homo sapiens'' mean?

12. When did the first ''H.sapiens'' evolve?

13. What adaptations to heat did ''H. sapiens'' have?

14. When did ''H.sapiens'' move out of Africa and begin to spread across Asia and Europe?

15. What does the narrator say is the most important aspect to human brain evolution(and allowed modern humans to survive)?

16. Why was the use of fire and tools by hominids so important to human evolution?