TAXONO MIC RANK KINGDOM PHYLUM CLASS ORDER SUBORDER INFRAORD ER PARVORDE R SUPERFAMILY

NAME Animalia Chordata Mammalia Primates Haplorrhin i Simiiforme s Catarrhini Homoinoid ea (Gray, 1825)
Proconsulida

e
Afropithecid

African primates. Old monkey+ape.

FAMILY SUBFAMILY TRIBE

ae Hylobatidae Hominidae

Gibbon Pongiae Hominiae Hominini

Orangutans

Australopithec ina

Australopithec us

-diminutive and gracile -between 1,2-1,4 m -males larger than females -similar to bonobos A.Afarensis -small brain -primitive face -ape-like scapula -loss of an abductable great toe (ability to grasp with the foot) -bipedalism -knucke walking -probably stone tools A.Africanus -human like posture -intermediate species -arms slightly larger than legs -cranium that resembled that of a chimp -sexual dimorphism in the lumbar spine A.Anamensis -resembled the common chimpanzee A.Bahrelghaz ai

Paranthropus gr.beside human

A.Garhi P.Robustus

Ardiputhecus (?) Sahelanthropu s tchadensis Orrorin (original man) Kenyanthropu s SUBTRIBE Hominina Gorilla Homo Gorillas Homo Sapiens +Homo Gautengen sis +Homo Habilis

-earliest stone tools -head shaped a bit like a gorillas with a more massive built -large chewing muscles -females stood just under 1 m and weighed only 40kg -males stood 1,2 m and weighed 54 kg -hard gritty foods P.Boisei -sexual diphormism -49 kg and 1,34 for males and 34 kg and 1,24 m for females -skull highly specialized in heavy chewing -inhabited savannah woodland territories -biggest, flattest cheek teeth -thickest enamel P.Aethiopicu -adapted for heavy chewing s -megadont archaic hominin A.Ramidus -walked upright -lived in a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with A. Kadabba lakes, swamps and springs -controversed -few, if any, specimens are known, other than the partial skull nicknamed Toumai (hope of life) -O. tugenensis -small teeth -bipedal but climbed trees -K. platyops (flat face) -mosaic envirnoment -few details

-big teeth suitable for chewing plant material -produced and used stone tools and even fire -0.91 m, 50 kg -spent considerable amount of time in trees -lacked speech and language skills -least similar to modern humans -short -disproportionately long arms -stone tools -lat. erigere=to put up, set upright

+Homo

Erectus

-Pithecanthropus erectus/Sinanthropus pekinensis/Javanthropus soloensis/ Meganthropus paleojavanicus/Telantrhopus capensis/H.e.georgicus/H.e.e/H.e. lantianensis/ etc. -Sophisticated stone tools -Controlled fire -Cooked -First human to live in small, familiar band-societies -one of the earliest known human varieties in Europe -right-handed -symbolic language -able to reason -low forehead -lack of strong chin -gr. ergastri=workman -lithic technology -thinner bones -lower forehead -less protrusive face -1,89 m -oldest known occurrences of cavities -more advanced tools and behaviour -1,75 m tall, 62 kg -some populations were giants having over 2,13 m -may have been the first species to bury their dead and use red paint -primitive form of language -Africa -smaller face -greater cranio-facial robusticity -males stoold around 1,68 m and females about 1,56 -larger brain than modern humans -particularly strong hands and arms -77 kg for males and 66 for females -may have had red hair and light skin color -small body and cranian capacity -absence of a chin -lesser angle in the head and humerus -1,30 m -flat feet and unusually long in relation with the rest of the body

+Homo Antecessor

+Homo Ergaster

+Homo cepranensis +Homo Rhodesiensi s/ +Homo Heidelberg ensis +Homo sapiens idaltu (Herto Man) +Homo Neandertha lensis +Homo Floresiensis (hobbit)

SPECIES SUBSPECIES

Pan Archaic Homo sapiens Homo sapiens sapiens

Chimpanzees. Bonbo Cro-Magnon has no taxonomic status, as it refers neither to a species or subspecies nor to an archaelogical phase or culture. It is a name used to describe he frist Homo sapiens sapiens.