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A brief summary that covers all the different hominids discovered and their characteristics and the order in which they occurred. Please note that this summary is not in-depth enough to learn from alone. It is only to help you revise certain concepts.

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Australopithecus Homo
San -

world 's oldest extant people
1st bipedal primates
Larger brain than Australopithecus
→ →
Oldest living population on Earth !
→



" "
→
Ape-men : make tools
,
fire and develop languages
→
Descendants of Homo sapiens
→
Skull is more human like -




Australopithecus afarensis
E.
g Lucy
Afar Ethiopia
,
Homo habilis "

Handy Man
"
(Oldman tool culture ) Homo sapiens sapiens
→
→
bipedal °
lived alongside Australopithecus Modern humans
→
Can change environment
Ape-like face Larger brain (more developed) make tools to suit needs
→ → =




/ short
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First →
On brink of extinction due
long legs stone tools to
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arms to use

→
brain size similar to apes environmental destruction .




" "
Homo erectus Upright man

Australopithecus africanus →
First hominids to
migrate
Eg Taung child Kimberly Eg .
Turkana boy ( Kenya) Interdependence of hominid skills
( Discovered =
Raymond Dart) Peking man China)
Bipedalism
°
→
bipedal Java man (Indonesia) : -


Efficient movement
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Small brain
→
stone i. bone tools & Hunters
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Carry hunted prey
→
human -
like teeth →
First to use fire
-

See potential food sources

✗ Need skills to succeed
tool-making .
*

Sterkfontein Homo neanderthal ensis
Eg Mrs Pies

(Discovered
→
Europe i. Asia Tool
Robert Broom) making More developed larger prey
° -
: -
=
=




Bipedal (foramen Magnum position ! ) Brains larger than A. sapien
'


→ →
i. more protein intake
Dentition language not well developed
=

plant based diet brain development
→
= . =
Improved
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Hunters
°
Fire making
Australopithecus wore skins as clothes Requires large
→ :
sediba brain capacity
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-




life )
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buried dead spiritual
"
(
"


Eg Woman i. boy lkarabo) =
depends on diet and hunting skills .




Malapa cradle of Humankind -

Access to
greater range of food
( Discovered Homo sapiens
=
Lee Berger ) : further brain development
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Direct ancestors of modern humans
Most complete early hominid
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(spears /arrows / hooks)
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Transitional fossil between A. africanus Better skills i. more advanced tools .
°
Hunting i. development of culture : -

burials and form
and H
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lived in tents
.
sapien .
of art depend on
→
i.
adapted for climbing but was bipedal Agriculture language and communication
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Wore
i.
had brow ridge i. small brain but size jewellery +
painted body
shows more advanced brain than Australopithecus .
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Rituals for hunting birth i. death ,

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