Overview
1. Why do you think fossils are so controversial to non-scientists?
2. Why do you think Paleontologists consider BIPEDALISM to be the "Hallmark of humanity"?
3. What environmental and/or cognitive skills do you think separated early Homo species from the earlier hominids from whom they were descended?
4. Based on what you've learned about Archaic Homo sapiens, what behaviors and/or cognitive skills do you think separated and/or allowed early modern humans to out-compete the archaic Homo sapiens who coexisted with them?