Hominin Evolution

Question 1

Primate Characteristics

Answer 1

Characteristics:

• Forward facing eyes
• Flexible arms and shoulders
• Large brain for body size
• Hands and feet have five long digits

Question 2

Hominoids

Answer 2

All apes including great and lesser

Question 3

Hominids

Answer 3

All great apes

Question 4

Hominins

Answer 4

All human species and their bipedal close relatives

Question 5

Homo habilis

Answer 5

• Lived 2 mya

- Used stone tools

Question 6

Homo ergaster/erectus

Answer 6

• Lived and left Africa 1.8 mya
• Used fire
• Language and organised

Question 7

Homo heidelbergenis

Answer 7

• Lived 400-40 tya
• -Most recent ancestor to modern humans
• Common ancestor to H. sapiens and H. neanderthalenis

Question 8

Homo Neanderthalenis

Answer 8

• Lived 150-25 tya
• Heavy uild of modern humans (brow ridge, sloping forehead)
• Wiped out by H. sapiens (out-bred, killed)

Question 9

Homo Sapiens

Answer 9

• Lived in Africa 150 tya

- Left Africa 100 tya and again 80 tya

Question 10

Cultural evolution

Answer 10

All new characteristics which are transmitted by COMMUNICATION

Question 11

Technological evolution

Answer 11

Changes which increased control over their enviroment

Question 12

Primate Examples

Answer 12

Examples:

• Prosimians (bush babies, tarsiers, lemurs)
• New World Monkeys
• Old World Monkeys
• Apes