Human Evolution PPT Review
Matching: Choose the phrase from the second column that best describes the term in the first column.
__b__1.
Lucy
A. Stocky hominid species that lived in Europe and
then went mysteriously extinct.
_a___2.
Australopithecus
B. Most complete and best-preserved hominid
skeleton
__f__3.
Homo habilis
C. The earliest known human relative (evolved around
3 million years ago)
_e___4.
Homo erectus
D. Modern humans
__d__5.
Homo sapien
E. Order of mammals including monkeys, apes, and
humans
___c_6.
Neanderthals
F. First hominid to have clearly walked upright
___g_7.
Hominids
G. Family of mammals including modern humans
and their ancient relatives
__h__8.
Primates
H. First member of the Homo genus – evolved from
Australopithecines 2 million years ago – known
as “handy man”
9. Who are our closest living relatives in the primate world?
____flying lemurs____________________________
10. What is the Class, Order, Family, Genus and species of modern day humans?
Class: _Mammalia_______________
Order: __Primates______________
Family: ____Primates____________
Genus: ____Homo____________
Species: _____Homo sapienes ___________
11. What is our scientific name and what does it mean? _An example of a scientific name is Homo sapiens to
refer to modern human beings._______________________________
12. Describe the evolutionary history of hominids for the last six million years or so. (Hint: is it more bush like
or a consecutive string of bipedal forms?)
___As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. And over the millions of
years most of the species existed, hominids changed; they evolved; some diverged and became new species.
This is the story of our distant relatives, as told by the fossil
record._____________________________________
13. Which evolved first, large brains or upright walking? About when do the fossils show upright walking
evolving? ___erectus (collectively called australopithecines) helped convince anthropologists that walking
upright came before big brains in the evolution of humans. _________________________________________
14. Which group evolved first, H. neanderthalensis or H. erectus? When did each live?
___The first H. erectus fossils were found in 1891 on the Indonesian island of Java by a Dutch doctor called
Eugène Dubois. Before these discoveries, Neanderthals were the only early human for which fossils had been
found._________________________________________
15. Who was Homo floresiensis and what makes them such a curiosity?
__Homo floresiensis, dubbed "the Hobbit," was an ancient hominin that lived until at least 17,000 years ago.
Scientists discovered the first H. floresiensis fossil, along with stone tools and animal remains, in 2003 in the
Liang Bua (LB) cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, according to a 2004 Nature
paper.__________________________________
16. Habilis means “handy” in Latin. Explain why the early human H. habilis was given this name.
__This species known as 'handy man' because stone tools were found near its fossil remains and it is assumed
this species had developed the ability to modify stone into tools.______________________________
17. In what part of the world is it believed the ancestors to modern day humans lived?
__Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from their most likely recent
common ancestor, Homo erectus, which means 'upright man' in Latin.______________________________