Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To provide: Two examples of anatomical features that physical anthropologists consider to be “modern” when defining modern humans as a species.

Introduction: The person who studies the different aspect of characteristic feature of humans within the past and present era is called as anthropologist. The views of characteristic feature highly differ for different anthropologist that is based on what is to be considered the modern feature of humans. These features forms the basis to evaluate the origin of modern Homo sapiens.

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To identify: Two ways in which these “modern” features contrast with the morphological characteristics present in earlier members of the genus Homo.

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