1. HOMINIDS

2. Australopithecus Afarensis “Lucy”

7. Southern ape from the Afar region

8. Australopithecus Afarensis “Lucy” 4-3million BC/BCE Africa 3 feet tall, large heads, brains = 1/3 the size of ours Bipeds (walked on 2 feet) they could carry things

9. Homo Habilis

13. Handy Man

14. Homo Habilis 2-1.5 million BC/BCE Africa 4 feet tall, brains = 2/3 the size of ours Made stone, wood, and bone tools

15. Homo Erectus

19. Upright Man

20. Homo Erectus 1.8million - 200,000 BC/BCE Africa, Asia, Europe 5 1/2 feet, good walkers and runners huts & fire (protection, warmth, cooking), 1st to leave Africa

21. Neanderthalensis

25. Found in the Neander Valley in Germany

26. Neanderthalensis 230,000-30,000 BC/BCE Africa, Europe, Asia, Near East Short and stocky, hairy, with 2 ridges along the forehead lots of tools, sense of community (cared for the sick, buried the dead), hunted in a group

27. Homo Sapiens

31. Wise Man

32. Homo Sapiens 35,000-12,000 BC/BCE Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America 6 feet tall, large brains, slender bones Tools (bows and arrows, needles for sewing, hooks and spears for fishing), complex language, art, and music, shelters of earth & stone, crossed Bering Strait to North & South America