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Apes

Not found

All

No

N/A

200,000 years ago

Eat food

Everywhere

Present

Homo neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens

not listed.

Males: average 5 ft 5 in ; Females: average 5 ft 1 in Males: average 143 lbs ; Females: average 119 lbs

Tall, lean bodies

oval shaped skull with a low, receding forehead and distinct browridges, the thick, strong bones

first human like fossils

Germany

William King

1829

Europe and southwestern to central Asia

200,000 - 40,000 years ago

Homo erectus

Height: from 4 ft 9 in - 6 ft 1 in; Weight: from 88 - 150 lbs

Longer legs, shorter arms compared to torso

Teeth

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Indonesia

Eugène Dubois, a Dutch surgeon

1891

Not listed

Northern, Eastern, and Southern Africa; Western Asia, and East Asia (China and Indonesia)

Between about 1.89 million and 143,000 million years ago.

Homo habilis

Ashley Schultz

Eventually humans

Height: (average) 3 ft. 5 in. Weight: (average) 70 lbs.

Slightly larger braincase and smaller face and teeth

Long arms and a moderately-prognathic face

At Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania

A team lead by Louis and Mary Leakey

1960

Eastern and Southern Africa

2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago

Paranthropus boisei

Carlie Robbins

Evolutionary Tree Info

H. erectus specimen

eventually humans

Descendant of

Males: average 4 ft 6 in; Females: average 4 ft 1 in. Males: average 108 lbs; Females: average 75 lbs

Bipedal

big teeth and strong chewing muscles, which attached to the large crest on the skull

early human fossils

Mary Leakey

1959

not listed

Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi)

2.3 million to 1.2 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus

Katie Vering

Descendent of the genus homo.

Co-existance? Australopithecus afarensis

Ancestor to Paranthropus boisei

Males: average 4 ft 6 in // average 90 lbs ; Females: average 3 ft 9 in // average 66 lb

It can walk bipedally, has a larger cranium along with a larger brain and smaller teeth.

It has long arms, strongly sloping face, pronounced jaw, which are all ape-like features.

Early fossil humans

the first in Africa

Prof. Raymond Dart

1942

Southern Africa

3.3 to 2.1 million years ago

Ardipithecus Ramidus

Kate Wright

Evolutionary tree info

Descendent of: Ardipithecus

Features

Female: Height- 3 ft 11 in Weight- 110 lbs Male: They said that they are not much bigger then the female

smaller diamond-shaped canines and some evidence of upright walking

Unknown

Discovered

Middle Awash area between Ethiopia

They were found by a team lead by an american paleoanthropologist, Tim White.

1992-1994

Lived

How

In eastern africa

4.4 million years ago