1. Chapter 17
Human Evolution

3. Comparison of Chimpanzee and Human Jaws

4. Comparison of Gorilla and Australopithecine Skeletons

6. Classification of
Modern Humans

7. Two Hypotheses on the Evolution of Hominids

8. Map of Homo sapiens Migration

14. With 40 percent of her skeleton intact, Lucy remains the oldest and most complete adult human ancestor fully retrieved from African soil.

17. 1. Australopithecus afarensis Cranium
2. Australopithecus africanus Cranium
3. Homo habilis Cranium
4. Homo erectus Cranium
5. Neandertal Cranium

19. Human Evolution
To understand the story of human evolution, we must understand both our ancestry and our relationship to our closest living kin.

20. Who studies Human Evolution?
Scientists who study fossil evidence of human evolution are called paleoanthropologists or biological anthropologists.
Much of the information available about human evolution comes from the fossilized bones of early hominids, a group that comprises humans and their immediate ancestors.

21. Why Study Human Evolution?
Remember evolution is the change in allele frequency over time.
To look forward into the future of the human race we must study where we have been.

24. A. robustus
A. boisei

25. H. erectus
H. habilis

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