LAB EXERCISE 13.3 continued Name da r Station 5: Comparison of Young Individuals
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LAB EXERCISE 13.3 continued Name da r Station 5: Comparison of Young Individuals Alternative to Specimens: Figure Below and Figures from Lab Exercise 13.2, Station 1) 1 Compare the Taung child, designated as Australopithecus africanus, with the modern fetal human skull and young ape in Lab Exercise 13.2, Station 1. Why do you think the discoverer of the Taung child, Raymond Dart, insisted that the Taung skull was on the human, not the ape, line? What features may have led him to this conclusion? Keep in mind that this individual was at least three years old Taung child facial skull, mandible, and endocranial cast. Chapter 13 Early Members of the Human Line 3Explanation / Answer
The taung child is a fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. Many researchers suggests that physical evidence does not incontroversially link features of taung skull , or its endocast, to early prefrontal lobe expansion, a brain region implicated in many human behaviors. Expecting human ancestors to have evolved a large brain very early, they found that the taung child's small brain human like teeth made it an unlikely ancestor to modern humans. It was compared to the skulls of chimpanzees. Taung's human like features were overemphasised. Humans go through stages as they grow up,on the other hand, Taung infant apes have not had time to develop features of skull.
Since all animals have reproduced and varied only within created kinds, just as we infer from Genesis , god designed them to do and just as observable biologg demonstrates. Watching Taung child topple has been interesting thing, as it demonstrates the resilience of evolutionary ideas to evolve themselves to adpat to any alterations in the evidence on which they are supposedly built with an ever changing, ever changeable story.
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