evidence for human evolution

Question 1

what is evolution?

Answer 1

a change in characteristics of a species over several generations

Question 2

examples of binomial species

Answer 2

Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus afarensis, homo habius, homo erectus, homo sapiens

Question 3

how do fossils and stone tools support current ideas about human evolution?

Answer 3

as the oldest stone tools were very simple but would have helped with the skinning of an animal or cutting up meat

Question 4

how many years were the stone tools dated from their environment?

Answer 4

3.3 million years ago

Question 5

how had stone tools developed

Answer 5

stone tools have developed because as brain size increased, advancements in tools were made

Question 6

3 examples of fossil evidence (4.4,3.2,1.6)

Answer 6

• Ardi - 1.2m and 50kg, may be able to walk upright, long arms and big toes that were on the side of feet (able to climb trees)
• Lucy - 1.7m, could probably walk upright, toes were of modern human but very curved
• Homoerectus - 1.7m and strongly built. proved that humans evolved from Africa and not Asia