Hominins Flashcards
Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Date: 6 -7mya
Placement: Chad (West Central Africa)
Features: Small cranial capacity, small pointy canines, and short cranium base
-Earliest hominin
Orrorin tugenensis
Date: 6-5.7mya
Placement: Tugen Hills (Kenya)
Features: Small cheek teeth, thick enamel, reduced apelike features, Bipedal
-First species that indicates adaptations for bipedalism locomotion
Australopithecus ramidus
Date: 4.4 mya
Placement: Ethiopia
Features: Small brain, midfacial projection, slight prognathism, less flared cheekbones
- Shown abilities to climb trees while also walking upright
Australopithecus afarensis
Date: 2.9-3.9 mya
Placement: Tanzania,Kenya,Ethiopia
Features: Reduced canines + molars, robust facial features, prognathic face
-Creator of the Laetoli footprints
Australopithecus Africanus
Date; 3.3-2.1 mya
Placement: South Africa
Features: large brain, small canines/teeth, round cranium
- Showed potential early tool use
Homo habilis
Date: 2.5-1.7 mya
Placement: Ethiopia
Features: big brain size, less prognathic, rounded skull
-Were the first to create tools
Homo Erectus
Date: 1.8 mya
Placement:Asia and Africa
Features: Big body, smaller teeth,bigger brain size, less ape-like
-First to migrate out of Africa
Homo Rudolfensis
Date: 1.9 mya
Placement: Kenya
Features: large/wide molars, small teeth, flat face, large skull
-had increased culture
Homo neanderthalensis
Date: 130,000-40,000 mya
Placement:Germany
Features: long low skull, prominent brow ridge, big nose
-Known as the first human relatives
Homo sapiens
-What we are today
