The origins of Humanity
Lucy
What did he eat?
What she was?
She was a hominid.
She ate leaves and plnats
Where did she live?
Still lived in trees
How much did it average and how much did it weigh?
was only 1.1 meters tall and weighed 60-65 pounds
evolution
Australopithrcues
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
H. Sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens sapiens
they are an extinct genus of hominid primates. Species of this genus inhabited Africa from just over 3.9 million years ago to about 2 million years ago
It is a species of archaic human from the Lower Pleistocene, lived in southern and eastern Africa about 2.3 to 1.65 million years ago.
It is an extinct hominid, living between 2 million years and 117,000 years before the present.
It is an extinct species of the genus Homo that inhabited Europe, the Near East, the Middle East and Central Asia, between 230,000 and 40,000 years before the present
It is a subspecies that includes current humans and previous members of the Homo sapiens species with a physical appearance consistent with their phenotypes.
extra information
Human evolution or hominization is the process of biological evolution of the human species from its ancestors to the present. The study of this process requires an interdisciplinary analysis in which knowledge from sciences such as genetics, physical anthropology, paleontology, stratigraphy, geochronology, archeology, and linguistics.
The term human, in this context, refers to individuals of the Homo sapiens species. Morphological, genetic and molecular evidence have determined that the closest living species to Homo sapiens is the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). In this way, the specific study of human evolution is the study of the lineage, or clade, which incorporates all species closer to modern humans than to chimpanzees. Molecular and paleontological evidence have estimated that the common ancestor between Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes, lived in Africa between 5 to 7 million years (Ma). From this divergence, new species continued to emerge within the hominin lineage, all of them currently extinct with the exception of Homo sapiens.
human creation
One of the issues that has attracted the most attention of man is the one referring to their origins as a species. From the most ancient cultures it has been tried to give an explanation according to the own cultural and social principles, such postulates have had repercussions through the history of each people. In the case of Greek culture, the creation of man was associated with mythology. After Iapetus, son of Uranus, married Climene, the latter conceived the Titans.
One of them was Prometheus, who later formed human beings from the slime of the earth, and to encourage them he stole the fire of the gods, which is why Zeus punished him by chaining him while an eagle devoured his liver; until Heracles, moved by Prometheus' suffering, saves him from that torture. A less romantic and tragic explanation is the one that presents the genesis of the Judeo-Christian tradition, although it does not stop resorting to divine creation, it establishes that man was created in the image and likeness of his creator: «God the Lord formed man from the earth itself, and blew into her nose and gave her life. Thus man began to live.
