Video: History
of the Anthropoid
WSU 18235,
1997, 45 minutes
- Note: The film
follows Friedemann Schrenk, who is a German paleoanthropologist,
and the co-editor of a volume entitled African biogeography,
climate change & human evolution, edited by Timothy G.
Bromage & Friedemann Schrenk (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Questions:
- Why is the
Rift valley a good place to look for hominid fossils?
- Know each
of the Leakeys: Louis, Mary, Richard, and Maeve
- Where was
Australopithecus anamensis found and what are some of
its characteristics?
- What does
it mean to say that hominids were "sympatric" with
carnivores on the Serengeti?
- What animals
were hominids' biggest competitors?