What did humans evolve from?
Human Evolution facts
Humans evolved over the span of 6m years
Early Human Traits
Bipedalism, it evolved over the span of 4m years
A large complex brain capable of making tools and language
Humans came from: Bonobos, Pygmy chimpanzees and gorillas. They all share an ancestor that lived 8m years ago
The rise of agriculture came 12k
Human Evolution, what it changed
Physical Changes
Credit to: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Tool Changes
Their skulls turned from having big sloped faces and having small brain cases to have small faces and big brain cases
Their tools went from big rocks to sharpened rocks then to big sharpened rocks then to small sharpened flint
What did humans evolve from?
Human Evolutions Facts
Our evolutionary history is written in our genome
homo sapien means "wise man" in latin
our species is the only surving species of the genus homo
modern humans originated from africa 200,000 years ago
Homo erectus
our most likely common ancestor is homo erectus
homo erectus means upright man in latin
homo erectus is an extinct species of human that lived between 19,000,000 and 135,000 years ago
Credit to: Your Genome