What trends that took place during the course of human evolution? How did the cranium (shape, cranial capacity, size and shape of face, prognathism/orgnathism), dentition (size of the teeth, shape of the dental arcade, CP3 complex), limb proportions, and pelvis morphology (shape of the ilium) change from the Australopithecines up through modern humans. Be able to provide hominin examples to illustrate these changes.
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1)The evolution of modern humans from our hominid ancestor is commonly considered as having involved four major steps: evolving terrestriality, bipedalism, a large brain (encephalization) and civilization.