A | B |
primate characteristics | grasping hands, color vision, binocular vision |
anthropoid characteristics | opposable thumb, rotating shoulder, paritially rotating elbow |
hominid characteristics | bipedalism, larger brain |
bipedal | walking primarily on two legs |
quadrapedal | walking on four limbs |
Australopithicines | earliest bipedal hominids |
hominids | bipedal primates |
age of Lucy | 3.2 my |
Homo habilis | earliest Homo "handy man" about 2 mya |
Homo erectus | first to leave Africa about 1 mya |
Neanderthals | evolved from H. erectus about 200,000 ya in Europe and Asia |
Homo sapiens | evloved from H. erectus about 200,000 ya in Africa |
great ape | gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan |
recent African origin hypothesis | H. sapiens migrated from Africa about 100,000 ya |
multiregional hypothesis | H. erectus migrated from Africa about 1 mya and evolved into H. sapiens in several regions |
Laetoli | location of 3.5 my old fossil footprints |
Hadar | where Lucy was found |
prosimians | primative primates that are nocturnal and live in trees |