1. Primate Classification
Primates – monkeys, lemurs, gorillas, chimps, humans, etc.

2. Primates cont.
Family Hominoidea (hominid)– great apes (gorilla, orangutans, chimps & bonobos), humans (living and extinct)
Hominins – chimps, bonobos, and humans (living and extinct)
Genus Homo – the humans

3. Primates hair or fur warm-blooded live young suckle infant dependence
social life
play
observation and imitation
pecking order
Common Primate Traits

4. Primate Family Tree
Orangutan
Crown lemur

5. Hominin Evolution Homo habilis (2.0 – 1.6mya) H. erectus (1.9-70kyBP)
H. neanderthalensis (300-30kyBP)
H. sapiens (200kyBP – present)
~ 20 different homo species
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Scale: Millions of Years BP

6. Hominid Evolution

7. Homo heidelbergensis Africa into Europe 500 000 – 300 000 yrs BP
primitive form of language
similar tools/fire as H. erectus
evolved into H. neandertalensis in Europe
evolved into H. sapien in Africa

8. Homo sapiens Archaic – 200,000 to 35,000 years BP
Modern – 35,000 years BP to present
Anatomically modern
Homo sapiens sapiens

9. Modern Homo Sapiens Multiregional Model
Humans evolved more or less simultaneously across the entire Old World from several ancestral populations.
Rapid-Replacement Model (Out of Africa)
Humans evolved only once--in Africa --and then migrated throughout the Europe and Asia, replacing their ancestors
mDNA evidence supports this