HUMAN EVOLUTION

Question 1

Name four facts about Australopithecus afarensis

Answer 1

-Lived four million years ago
-Did not have stone tools
-Weighed about 50kg
-Walked upright on two legs

Question 2

Name three facts on australopithecus africanus

Answer 2

-Dates back to 3 million years ago
-Has a famous skull named Mrs.Ples
Examples of this species found in Sterkfotien caves in Gauteng

Question 3

Name four facts on Homo habilis

Answer 3

-Date back to 2 million years ago
-Made tools from stones
-Started to develop family relationships
-Constructed stone walls for shelter

Question 4

Name five facts on Homo erectus

Answer 4

-Lived 1.5 million years ago
-Lived in caves
-Captured and controlled natually-caused fires
-Used more speciallezed stone tools
-Had improved methods of protecting themselves and obtaing food

Question 5

Name three facts on Homo Sapiens

Answer 5

-Originated 300,000 years ago
-Show physical charaterists of people as we know them today
-Found near Saldanha near the Western Cape

Question 6

Name six facts about Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Answer 6

-Date to 100,000 years ago
-Used smaller, delicate tools
-Had the use of fire
-Highly devloped family relationships
-Held ceremonies for burying the dead
-Had some form of religious belief