Sunday, October 30, 2011

Who's Who Among the Early Hominids?

In the past there where many different types of creatures before we evolved, some very similar to are kind while others were more like apes. Over time there body structure changed as well as their mind and everything else. One of the oldest recorded ancestors which we found is a called Sahelanthropus Tchandensis. It is about 6-7 million years old, and there have been lots of arguements if this creature resembles us {humans} more then apes. After that comes the Orrorin Tugenensis which was found in kenya. It lived approximately form 6.1 to 5.8 million years ago. It used to climb a lot like apes. After this comes the Ardipithecus {ground ape} which live 4.4 million years ago. Not a lot of information has been found on this creature except that it has ape like skeleton antonym, and that it had smaller molar teeth and larger front teeth, basically ape like features.  After the Ardipithecus  there are the Kenyapithecus Platyops, Parnthropus and Austalopithecus which kind of interacted during their life time because all of them lived in between 2 million years and 4 millions years ago. Now slowly we are beginning to get into early humans {sometimes known as cave men.} So we have Homo Erectus, Homo habills, and Homo rudolfensis which all three of them started to resemble a lot like humans. Homo habills even and Homo rudolfensis even started to use tools. After them we have Homo georgicus and homo neandethalensis, And Homo floreslensis. In conclusion i wanted to state that personally i am amazed how many creatures there were before us. Can you imagine what there community was like. Cant wait to find out even older ancestors.

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