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200,000 BCE
Australopithecus
4 million years ago (MYA) South Africa, presented Ethiopia, people’s were 1 meter tall and 7 feet, live in trees, first human like creatures, start of our eveloution chain. -
Period: 199,000 BCE to 198,000 BCE
Homo habilis
Brain case had become fuller
Beginning of a slight forehead appearing
Face smaller and shorter than those of earlier ancestors -
Neolithic revolution
The Neolithic revolution started around 10000 BC.
In the Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East where humans first took up farming.
Shortly after, Stone Age humans in other parts of the world also began to practice agriculture. -
Homo sapiens
This skull is transitional between Homo heidelbergensis and early modern Homo sapiens. It has a number of primitive features but also has some modern characteristics such as a reduced brow ridge and smaller facial features. -
Homo erectus
Alive from 1.98 million years ago to 143,000 years ago, he was the first to leave Africa and the first to master the use of fire. Ranging from 4 foot 9 inches to 6 foot 1 inch and from 88 to 150 pounds, Homo erectus was the first ancestor to approximate modern humans in size.