MACROEVOLUTION AND

FORMATION OF NEW SPECIES

BY: GROUP 4
 WHAT IS MACROEVOLUTION?

• Major revolutionary change

• Focuses on the formation of new species and their
relationships with other species.
• Species is a population capable of interbreeding
• Speciation is the formation of new and distinct
species in the course of evolution
 WHAT IS NATURAL SELECTION?

• Popularized by Charles Darwin

• The differential survival and reproduction of
individuals
• Also known as “Survival of the Fittest”
• Survival of the form that will leave the most
copies of itself in successive generations
 WHAT IS CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY?

• Earth was believed to have one, big super-continent

called “Pangaea”
• theory that the Earth's continents have moved over
geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing
to have "drifted" across the ocean bed.
 APPEARANCE OF MAMMALS
• The earliest primate-like mammal appeared 65 million
years ago
• 40 million years ago, diurnal anthropoids appeared
• Miocene occurred 23 million years after
• Fossils of hominoids appeared in Asia, Africa and Europe
• Hominoids are broad-shouldered primates with no tails
• Coined from the Latin word “homo” (human) and
“oxides” (resembling)
 EARLY HUMANS

• Humans were different among the hominoids due to

Bipedalism
• Bipedalism is a form of locomotion on two feet
• Humans also had larger and more developed brains
• The earliest ancestors of humans came from
australopithecines
• Australopithecines are group of extinct primates closely
related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings
 PALEOLITHIC PERIOD

• Also referred to as Old Stone age

• Started 2.5 million years ago and ended
on 3300 BCE
• Divided into 3 divisions
 DIVISIONS OF THE PALEOLITHIC AGE
• Lower Paleolithic Period – marked the existence of the
Homo Erectus where they sought after efficiency and
they built tools
• Middle Paleolithic Period - period wherein the Homo
Sapiens lived and were more efficient and they created
better tools
• Upper Paleolithic Period – Homo Sapiens still lived in
this period and the tools they made were more
specialized.
MURA RAG
KAMO SA
INYONG UYAB