Homo

research, it is evident that Homo erectus was lived in the North, East, South and West Africa, as well as West and East Asia. The skull was dispersed thoroughly around the old world. They are the oldest known humans to have human-like features, but with longer legs and shorter arms. “These features are considered adaptions, with the ability of to walk and possibly run long distances” (Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History). From finding the cranial index of Homo erectus it is classified as

A new species of human called "Homo naledi," was discovered by Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. What he didn’t know is that this discovery could change the progress of human evolution. After examining the fossils, Berger and his team came up with a new theory. They proposed that “the fossils -- consisting of infants, children, adults and elderly individuals -- were found, in a previously isolated chamber within the cave… the chamber, located

Our homo ancestors date back to about 2.5 million years ago. Classification of the genus Homo into species and subspecies remains poorly defined and subject to incomplete information, leading to difficulties in binomial naming, and the use of common names, such as "Neanderthal" and "Denisovan". With that being said, many people get a misunderstanding when discussing our homo ancestors. The biggest issue is knowing what a species are actually apart of the genus homo and who isn’t. Several species

The biology and culture of the Homo erectus that led to its success relative to earlier hominids is that it had a body shape similar to the Turkana boy who was bipedal and had a closely related body to humans. The erectus body proportion was long and linear-adapted to tropical conditions as well. Their skull was longer than it was wide, angular from the side, a sagittal keel, bar-like supraorbital torus, occipital torus, and greatest breadth is low. The body plan of a H.erectus is very much more

Homo erectus, the “upright man”, was one of the first human ancestors to posses human like body proportions. This hominid had long legs and shorter arms, suggesting that this hominid was our first ancestor with the ability to run like Homo sapiens can today (Smithsonian). While it is clear that Homo erectus is one of the earliest human ancestors to posses similar human features, it is unclear and a controversial topic to classify this early hominid. One reason for this is that “…the cranium (skull

genus Homo is widely debated, with several candidate ancestors being proposed in the genus Australopithecu. I believe that Au. garhi gave rise to the genus homo. I believe this to be true because even though it is believed that the Au. afarensis was most likely ancestor of the genus homo, the ancesteral-descendent linkage between the two taxa was difficult to identify, owing the virtual lack of a hominid fossil record in the East African dating to 3-2 mya, the timing during which earliest Homo likely

Homo Habilis Hominids with a brain absolutely and relatively larger than that of the australopithecines appeared about 2.3 million years ago. These hominids are classified in our own genus: Homo. The earliest species to appear was the Homo Habilis. It was the first of our ancestors to show a significant increase in brain size and also the first to be found associated with stone tools. These characteristics resulted in this species’ placement into the human genus, Homo. Discovery The first fossil

fossils and putting them into their appropriate group of species. This paper is going to be discussing the Homo erectus, Homo Heidelbergensis, and Archaic Homo sapiens. The paper will make comparative analysis of the individual species and point out why they deserve to be categorized as distinct species instead of a one species that has different characteristics due to geographical differences. Homo Heidelbergensis approximately lived about 600,000 years ago. This simply means the Heidelberg Man

Homo Erectus has been argued to be the first hominid to successfully migrate out of Africa, Home Erectus had a brain size approaching that of modern humans, averaging just under 100 cubic centimeters, his brain actually reached the lower limit of modern human brain size, Erectus was also the first human species to have a wide, fleshy nose, his face was flat and his skull had prominent ridges over the brow. his shorter arms were a departure from Homo habilis and Australopithecus, indicating that tree-climbing

Homo Floresiensis, also known as “hobbit” were discovered by scientist in Eastern Indonesia on the island Flores, which is also what they were named after. In total twelve indigenous human remains were found. To date, there are not a large range of fossils that have been found and there appears to be ongoing studies to uncover more information concerning this species. Therefore, this paper will explore the geographical location, age, anatomy, and the origin of these fossils, in an attempt to conclude