Human Ancestry

“The Mysterious Biped”

But if that was the case, how did this Modern Man come to life?? How did we

get to what we are today as humans living in such diverse places?

In his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

takes us through the chronology of the human descent.

Homo neanderthalensis

Marie Eugene Francois Dubois

Sumatra

Homo Erectus Solo, Java, Indonesia. (Homo erectus)

Homo Erectus

Homo Erectus

Homo Erectus

Raymond Dart

Africanus

Kalahari desert where Australopithecus africanus was found

Davidson Black

Peking man

Ralph Von Koenigswalt

Solo river

F. Clark Howell

Homo Habilis

Ardipithacus Ramidus

homo rudolfensis

Afarensis Afarensis

Donald Johanson

Kalahari Desert

Hadar Ethiopia where Lucy was found

Lucy

Meave Leaky

Kimeu

Homo sapiens