The Origin Of Humans

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Apes are member of the?

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Hominoidea

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2 familiar of hominoids

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Hominidae
Hylobatidae

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bonobos,orangutans,chimpanzees,gorillas, and human beings

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Hominidae

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is the tribe of Homininae that only includes humans (Homo), chimpanzees (Pan), and their extinct ancestors

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Hylobatidae

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, is a Latin word meaning ‘human’ or ‘man”.

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Homo

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is a class of similar things, especially a group of animals or plants that includes several closely related species,

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genus

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any of al family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals

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Hominid

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the group consisting of modern humans. extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).

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Hominin

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Australopithecus means

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‘southern ape

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is based on the location where some of the first fossils for this species were discovered - the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Africa

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afarensis

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the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.

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Homo sapiens

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The theory that the savannah was expanding due to increasingly arid conditions, which then drove hominin adaptation

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ARIDITY HYPOTHESIS

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The theory that hominins were forced out of the ability to modify stone into tools. trees they lived in and onto the expanding savannah

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SAVANNAH HYPOTHESIS

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• the condition of having two feet or of using only two feet for locomotion

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Bipedalism

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is a process that results in changes in the genetic content of a population over time

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Evolution

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(Latin: “able man” or “handy man”)

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Homo habilis

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(Latin: “upright man”) extinct species of the human genus

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HOMO ERECTUS

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in biology, the dying out or extermination of a species

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Extinction

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(Latin: “wise man”) the species to which all modern human beings belong

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Homo sapiens

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The name Homo sapiens was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification

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Carolus Linnaeus

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Homo erectus were discovered by

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Dutch army surgeon, Eugene Dubois

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A partial skeleton discoved in 1974

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Lucy

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Who discovered lucy?

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Donald johanson in hadar eutopia