phylogenetic tree

Skulls

Differences from humans

Chimpanzee Smaller skull because it is smaller than human skulls due to their brain size. image

Gorilla Looks like human skulls, but has a thicker and bigger skull.image

The erectus is charactarised by large molars. image

The Homo Neanderthalensis has a large middle part of the face, angled cheek bones, and a huge nose for humidifying and warming cold, dry air. According to http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis image

The Paranthropus are characterised by robust skulls. image

Australopithecus afarensis, the skull has an apelike face proportions (a flat nose, a strongly projecting lower jaw). According to http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/australopithecus-afarensis image

Human beings, have a thin-walled, high vaulted skull with a flat and near vertical forehead. Modern human faces also show much less (if any) of the heavy brow ridges and prognathism of other early humans. Our jaws are also less heavily developed, with smaller teeth. According to http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens image

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The Australopithecus is characterized by relatively small brain size.

Other primates have more chromosomes cells than humans by a little. image

A difference is that humans have more complex forms of verbal communication than other primates.

Human evolution

The starting of human evolution

More and more mammals, and animals have started to grow and be made. image
This is a tarsiers, a mammal and a primate where humans have evolved from.

But then, after the fishes, animals have started to grow legs. Such as tetrapods. image

Similarities from primates

Since most animals have evolved from The bony fish, lobe finned fish, then it goes on and on.

We, as primates have evolved from the start, from tarsiers all the way to now, human beings.

Characteristics

We have some characteristics of their legs, they have long legs for their small body, and us humans have long legs for our body's.

But they have claws when we have nails. Therefore tarsiers aren't the only primates we have evolved from.

The tarsiers fingers, the fingers are the type of fingers that us humans have.

The difference between a humans spine and other primates is that humans make a natural S and other primates makes a C.image

Chimpanzee are the closest to human beings according to many articles, and evidence.image

We are bipedal, so we walk on two, while chimpanzee can walk on all 4 and on 2 legs.

We have very similar musculature/ muscle structure to chimps.

Chimpanzees also communicate like humans, they also demonstrate a range of emotions including joy, sadness, fear and even empathy.

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A difference is that humans generally have larger brains and they also have larger bodies which makes a difference between us humans and other primates.

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We had the human beings and the rest of the primates in order like this because, the human beings are the recent evolution within the primates.