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By: HisGeo 101

The Birth of

Humankind

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HUMANITY

RELIGION SCIENCE

Theistic Evolution

Creation Science

EvolutionaryCreationism

Human Evolution

Biological Cultural

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"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural

Selection" - Charles Darwin

various changes brought about complex life formsas a result of random mutation, natural selection,

adaptation and isolation

All species on earth, including humans areproducts of a long process of evolution.

THEORY OF

EVOLUTION

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Evolution from pre-human creatures to the modern

humans we are today

Hominids, member of Hominidae (great ape

family)

Hominids are bipedal (two-legged)

HUMAN

EVOLUTION

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AUSTRALOPITHECINES

possessed characteristics of man and ape

eastern and southern Africa

Australopithecus Afarensis

northeastern Africa

Lucy

oldest Australopithecine skeleton

hands were similar to man, brain wassimilar to chimpanzee's, bipedal, 3.5ft tall, 4 million years ago

HUMAN

EVOLUTION

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EARLY HUMANS

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"handy man" / "man of skill"

tools for cutting meat, blades

to cut rocks

found in Africa

lived during the first period of

the Paleolithic period

had larger brains

HOMO HABILIS

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"upright man"

first appeared in Africa, but

eventually migrated

from food gathering to hunting

learned how to make fire

made us of animal skin for clothes

started speech and language

through signals

HOMO ERECTUS

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"upright man"

first appeared in Africa, but

eventually migrated

from food gathering to hunting

learned how to make fire

made us of animal skin for clothes

started speech and language

through signals

Java Man, Peking Man

HOMO ERECTUS

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"thinking/wise man"

Neanderthal

Nomadic hunters and gatherers

Neander Valley, Germany

5'5 ft tall, brains larger than those ofmodern humans

lived in caves (survival)

sophisticated tool making abilities

advanced culture (believed in life afterdeath, burial, medicine)

HOMO SAPIENS

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Cro-Magnon

first modern humans to

inhabit Europe

Named after the Cro-

Magnon rock

weapons, permanent

homes, cave paintings in

Lascaux (France)

HOMO SAPIENS

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HOMO SAPIENS

SAPIENS!!

...who we are today