1. Cladograms and Hominid Skulls
Unit Two, Day 14
Cladograms and Hominid Skulls

2. Opener minutes
Get out your reading and notes on Hominids Fill out the graphic organizer with your tablemates

3. Agenda
Hominid Skulls Homework: finish study guides Monday: assessment on speciation and cladograms

4. Questions about study guide?

5. New Learning Targets
I can analyze the data provided by a phylogenetic tree or cladogram to determine the evolutionary history of the organisms described in the diagram
In short: I can read cladograms
I can use a data set to create a cladogram that represents a reasonable hypothesis about the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms
In short: I can make a cladogram

6. Hominid Skulls

7. Hominid Cladogram
Do:
Use the data you collected, and the groupings of taxa you made, to create a cladogram showing the evolutionary relationships between the taxa represented by the skulls
First: make a rough draft on a white board. THEN, transfer to poster paper.
Hints:
Use the fossil data
Some of the skulls belong to the same taxon
Some of the clades you identified might need further division
Looking at which skulls SHARE traits might be helpful