EVOLUTION OF MAN

MAN A UNIQUE PRODUCT OF EVOLUTIONARY FORCES.

CLASSIFICATION

PHYLUM :CHORDATA

CLASS :MAMMALIA

ORDER :PRIMATES

SUB ORDER :ANTHROPOIDEA

GENU :HOMO

SPECIES :SAPIENS

MAN APPEARED

ABOUT 3 MILLION

YEARS AGO

ANCESTORS OF MAN

FOSSILS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

PROPLIOPITHECUS

• APE-LIKE PRIMATE.

• SHORT ARMS.

• LIVED IN OLIGOCENE PERIOD

• ANCESTORS OF MODERN APES AND MAN.

AEGYPTOPITHECUS

• FOSSIL APE.

• SIMILAR TO PROPLIOPITHECUS.

• LIVED IN MIOCENE PERIOD.

DRYOPITHECUS• LIVED IN MIOCENE

PERIOD.• DESCENDED FROM

PROPLIOPITHECUS.• FORE LIMBS

SHORTER THAN HIND LIMBS.

• DISTANT ANCESTOR OF MAN.

• ANCESTOR OF MODERN APES.

RAMAPITHECUS• APE-MAN.

• LIVED IN LATE MIOCENE AND EARLY PLIOCENE PERIOD.

• FOSSIL CONTAINS ONLY JAWS AND DENTITION.

• COLLECTED FROM INDIA AND AFRICA.

• DIRECT ANCESTOR TO MAN.

AUSTRALOPITHECUS

• APE-MAN.

• CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MAN AND APE.

• AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS IS A COMMON FOSSIL.

HUMAN CHARACTERS OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS

• ERECT POSTURE WITH 4 FT HEIGHT.

• BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION.

• BASIN-LIKE PELVIC GIRDLE.

• DENTITION LIKE MAN.

• HANDS USED FOR NON-LOCOMOTORY FUNCTIONS.

HOMO ERECTUS

• FIRST TRUE MAN.

• PRIMITIVE MAN.

• CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN APE-MAN AND MODERN MAN.

• ALSO CALLED JAVA MAN.

• LIVED IN JAVA AND PEKING.

FEATURES OF HOMO ERECTUS

• BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION.

• TALLER THAN AUSTRALOPITHECUS.

• FLATTENED SKULL.

• CANNIBALISTIC.

• THEY WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.

• LESS BODY HAIR AND BLACK.

HEIDELBERG MAN

• PRIMITIVE MAN.

• FOUND NEAR HEIDELBERG RIVER.

• ANCESTOR TO NEANDERTHAL MAN.

• HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS.

RHODESIAN MAN

• PRIMITIVE MAN.

• FOUND IN RHODESIA.

• LIVED IN LATE PLIOCENE PERIOD.

• RECEDING FOREHEAD.

• HOMO RHODESIENSIS.

NEANDERTHAL MAN• ADVANCED PRIMITIVE

MAN.

• FOUND IN NEANDER VALLEY.

• ORIGINATED 1,50,000 YEARS AGO.

• EXTINCT 25,000 YEARS AGO.

• HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS.

FEATURES OF NEANDERTHAL MAN

• SLIGHTLY SHORTER THAN MODERN MAN.

• LOW FOREHEAD.

• LARGE TEETH.

• SKILLFUL USE OF TOOLS.

• DEVELOPED SPEECH.

CRO-MAGNON MAN• EXTINCT MODERN

MAN.• ORIGINATED 3

MILLION YEARS AGO.• EXTINCT 20,000

YEARS AGO.• LIVED IN OLD STONE

AGE.• LIVED IN CAVES.• THEY WERE HUNTERS

AND ARTISTS.