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CLASSIFICATION
PHYLUM :CHORDATA
CLASS :MAMMALIA
ORDER :PRIMATES
SUB ORDER :ANTHROPOIDEA
GENU :HOMO
SPECIES :SAPIENS
PROPLIOPITHECUS
• APE-LIKE PRIMATE.
• SHORT ARMS.
• LIVED IN OLIGOCENE PERIOD
• ANCESTORS OF MODERN APES AND MAN.
DRYOPITHECUS• LIVED IN MIOCENE
PERIOD.• DESCENDED FROM
PROPLIOPITHECUS.• FORE LIMBS
SHORTER THAN HIND LIMBS.
• DISTANT ANCESTOR OF MAN.
• ANCESTOR OF MODERN APES.
RAMAPITHECUS• APE-MAN.
• LIVED IN LATE MIOCENE AND EARLY PLIOCENE PERIOD.
• FOSSIL CONTAINS ONLY JAWS AND DENTITION.
• COLLECTED FROM INDIA AND AFRICA.
• DIRECT ANCESTOR TO MAN.
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
• APE-MAN.
• CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MAN AND APE.
• AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS IS A COMMON FOSSIL.
HUMAN CHARACTERS OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS
• ERECT POSTURE WITH 4 FT HEIGHT.
• BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION.
• BASIN-LIKE PELVIC GIRDLE.
• DENTITION LIKE MAN.
• HANDS USED FOR NON-LOCOMOTORY FUNCTIONS.
HOMO ERECTUS
• FIRST TRUE MAN.
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN APE-MAN AND MODERN MAN.
• ALSO CALLED JAVA MAN.
• LIVED IN JAVA AND PEKING.
FEATURES OF HOMO ERECTUS
• BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION.
• TALLER THAN AUSTRALOPITHECUS.
• FLATTENED SKULL.
• CANNIBALISTIC.
• THEY WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.
• LESS BODY HAIR AND BLACK.
HEIDELBERG MAN
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• FOUND NEAR HEIDELBERG RIVER.
• ANCESTOR TO NEANDERTHAL MAN.
• HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS.
RHODESIAN MAN
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• FOUND IN RHODESIA.
• LIVED IN LATE PLIOCENE PERIOD.
• RECEDING FOREHEAD.
• HOMO RHODESIENSIS.
NEANDERTHAL MAN• ADVANCED PRIMITIVE
MAN.
• FOUND IN NEANDER VALLEY.
• ORIGINATED 1,50,000 YEARS AGO.
• EXTINCT 25,000 YEARS AGO.
• HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS.
FEATURES OF NEANDERTHAL MAN
• SLIGHTLY SHORTER THAN MODERN MAN.
• LOW FOREHEAD.
• LARGE TEETH.
• SKILLFUL USE OF TOOLS.
• DEVELOPED SPEECH.