Tonight's homework is to complete Notes 17 and answer the analysis questions found below.
Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability and in complete sentences beneath your completed table.
1. After looking at your compiled notes, what inferences can you make about human evolution?
2. Compare and contrast H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens fossils.
3. Why do you think that only one genus and species remains in the hominin/hominid group.
4. How would you classify a fossil that was found in France and dated to about 150,000 years if the skull had a thick browridge, but in most other ways appeared human?
NOTE: To help you with question #3, hominins include humans and their extinct relatives while hominids are fully bipedal primates. Additionally, remember that a genus is a grouping that is only slightly less exclusive than a species. When we use the term Homo sapiens, the "Homo" refers to the genus.
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