After examining the Our Life in Perspective time line, Human Origins in Africa, class room notes and your life experiences place visuals with captions on your blog that define, give examples of and explain the following.
1. Key differences between humans and other species- Language and Abstract thought.
2. Lucy- (Australopithecines Vegetarains) Walked upright and had opposable thumbs, and primates. Lucy was the first full body fossil that was most like the modern humans.
3. Homo Habilis- Were known as the handy man, because they were the first tool makers, and they walked upright. They used their tools to cut meat and break open bones, with stone blades they could bucher animals.
4. Homo Erectus- Last homid from africa, Domesticated fire, and made clothes. They made more advances tools with stone blades that made jobs easier.
5. Homo Sapiens- 300,000 years ago,"Wise men" from homo erectus, Larger brains (Modern humans)
6. Neanderthals- Used advanced tools, burried dead, took care of sick, Language capable, Very like us. neanderthals have heavy slanted brows, well- devloped mucles and thick bones.
7. Cro-Magnon- 40,000 years ago, out of africa, took over europe, 1st art- jewelery, expressed ideas, social rank. Would plan their hunts, they would study their prey and stalk them.
