12.7: Key Terms

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    Acheulean tool industry - Tool industry characterized by teardrop-shaped stone handaxes flaked on both sides.

    Carnivory – consuming the meat of animals

    Cognitive – anything related to thinking, learning, and understanding

    Gracile – exhibiting more slender features

    Mandible – the lower jawbone

    Mosaic evolution - Different characteristics evolve at different rates and appear at different stages.

    Occipital torus – A ridge on the occipital bone in the back of the skull.

    Oldowan tool industry - Earliest stone-tool industry consisting of simple flakes and choppers.

    Pleistocene - Geological epoch dating from 2.6 million years ago to about 11,000 years ago.

    Primatological - anything related to primatology, the study of primates

    Prognathic/Prognathism - Condition where the lower face and jaw protrude forward from a vertical plane.

    Sagittal keel - A thickened area along the top of the skull.

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