1) What is taphonomy? How important is context to any "find?" What kinds of cultural information may not be represented by artifacts/fossils alone?
2) Provide three reasons why natural selection may have favored bipedal locomotion in the hominin lineage. Why did hominins became bipedal but other terrestrial primates, such as baboons, did not?
3) Why were so many biologists and anthropologists fooled by the Piltdown hoax? The discovery of A. africanus and A. robustus were both virtually ignored due to the Piltdown hoax. Why?