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SOCIO-CULTURAL
EVOLUTION
• Since the appearance of the first humanlike
beings about 4 million years ago until the
development of the first modern-looking
humans around 100,000 years ago, profound
changes had happened to the human species,
changes that transformed them from
Hominids to Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTIONS ARE
KEY CONCEPTS IN THE STUDY OF THE
ORIGINS OF MODERN HUMANS.
• The Sahelanthropus
• The Ardipithecus
• The Australopithecus
• The Homo
• The Australopithecus & The Homo
– Had the most number of species based on the
fossils and artifacts that were excavated by
archeologists
• The Australopithecus
– Considered the first stage of human evolution
• The Homo
– Considered the last stage of human evolution
• The Australopithecus, Sahelanthropus, and
Ardipithecus, are considered the prehuman
stage of evolution.
Orrorin Tugenensis
The Ardipithecus
The Ardipithecus
• Apdipithecus family had 2 species namely:
• Ardipithecus Kadabba (5.6 MYA)
• Ardipithecus Ramidus (4.4 MYA)
• Characteristics
1. Brain size of 1,000 cc or about 2/3
of the modern human brain size
1. Height of about five feet
2. Walks upright
Homo erectus
• They were first located at Africa and later, they
started to travel outside the African continent.
It also reached as far as Asia and Southern
Europe.
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Cro-Magnon
• It is now considered as the first fossil skeleton
to be considered as the specie of the Homo
sapiens, called as the Homo sapiens sapiens
(Wise Man)
Cro-Magnon
• the name Cro-Magnon was taken from a rock shelter in
France where the fossil was excavated in 1868.