1. -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

2. -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

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

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

5. -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)

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

7. Homo habilis-tools, "handy human" (1.6-2.5 myo), speech, ate meat?

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

9. 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

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