1.2.4.

1 Human Evolution

DIRECTIONS: Fill in the table with the correct details about the stages of human evolution.

Human Evolution

Australopithecus Homo Erectus Homo Sapiens Homo Sapiens-Sapiens

In scientific

Raymond Dart described
classification, human
it and named the species beings are tagged with
Australopithecus Eugène Dubois, a Dutch the name Homo sapiens
a 160,000-year-old
partial skull
africanus (meaning surgeon, found the first (Latin: “wise man”). In
discovered in1997 in
southern ape of Homo erectus individual his 10th edition of
Herto, Ethiopia. skull
Africa)The first (Trinil 2) in Indonesia in Systema Naturae,
from an adult male
Australopithecus 1891. In 1894, Dubois Swedish botanist and
and those of another
specimen, the type named the species taxonomist Carl
adult and a child were
specimen, was Pithecanthropus erectus, Linnaeus coined the
found in 1997 and
discovered in 1924 in or 'erect ape-man.It was term (describing himself
publicly announced
a lime quarry by discovered in 1891. as the type specimen).
in 2003.
workers at Taung, This was in 1997
South Africa.