-hominids-group that comprises of humans and their immediate ancestors Human Evolution -hominids-group that comprises of humans and their immediate ancestors -evidence of human evolution

-anthropoid primates-monkeys, apes, and humans -primates-mammalian order that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans -anthropoid primates-monkeys, apes, and humans -prosimian primates-lemurs, tarsiers -most lived in trees like they do today

-Anthropoid characteristics-large brain, opposable thumb, color vision, similar dental formula, hands and feet are prehensile-grasping

-Human characteristics -bipedalism-ability to walk primarily on two legs VS. -quadrupedal-walk on four limbs

-Lucy-found in 1974 in Africa, 3 -Lucy-found in 1974 in Africa, 3.2 million year old fossil of a primate, Donald Johanson (Australopithecus afarensis)

-missing links-hominid forms arose and died out, the human phylogenic tree has many branches

Homo habilis-tools, "handy human" (1.6-2.5 myo), speech, ate meat? http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/habilis/images/habilis-tools.jpeg http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/images/H_habilis_er_200.jpeg

Homo erectus-"upright human" (1.8myo-50,000 years old), hunters

Homo sapiens-(800,000 years old) · Neanderthals-not ancestral to modern humans, lived in caves and stone shelters during the last ice age, disappeared as modern Homo sapiens arrived · Modern Homo sapiens-oldest fossils-35,000 years old-called Cro-Magnons

http://www.becominghuman.org/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson5/act1.html

http://www. seedmagazine http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2005/10/gorillas_join_the_ranks_of_too.php

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