HUMAN
EVOLUTION
Human evolution, the process
by which human beings
developed on Earth from now-
extinct primates. Viewed
zoologically, we humans are
Homo sapiens, a culture-
bearing upright-walking
species that lives on the
ground and very likely first
evolved in Africa about 315,000
years ago.
Dryopithecus
Believed to have lived during the
middle–late Miocene period
between 12.5 to 11.1 million years ago
(mya). They prominently populated
the boundaries of Europe. These
ancient primates mostly resembled
modern gibbons. Due to their more
upright posture and the ability to
move through trees. They are also
regarded as ancestor or closely
related to modern apes and
humans.
Homo - Habilis
He had a face similar to his
ancestors. The skull and brain size
indicate that he may have been
able to speak. The earliest tools
made were from this era. Homo
habilis is known as the ‘handy man’
because he was the first to make
and use tools. Along with this, a
partially bipedal gait indicates a
transition from ape-like ancestors
to more human-like traits.
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ERECTUS

Homo
Neanderthalensis
A member of a group of archaic HOMO SAPIENS
humans who emerged at least
The extinct ancient human The species that you and all other
200,000 years ago during the
Homo erectus is a species of living human beings on this planet
Pleistocene Epoch and were
firsts. It was the first of our belong to is Homo sapiens. During a
replaced or assimilated by early
time of dramatic climate change
relatives to have human-like modern human populations between
300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens
body proportions, with shorter 35,000 and perhaps 24,000 years
evolved in Africa. Like other early
arms and longer legs relative to ago. They inhabited Eurasia from the humans that were living at this time,
its torso. It was also the first Atlantic regions of Europe eastward
they gathered and hunted food,
known hominin to migrate out to Central Asia, from as far north as and evolved behaviors that helped
of Africa, and possibly the first present-day Belgium and as far them respond to the challenges of
south as the Mediterranean and
to cook food. survival in unstable environments.
southwest Asia.