EVOLUTION

OF
HUMAN

By : YOGESH KUMAR
Reg. Number : 11710084
Roll. No. : 45 (in PEL131)
 Introduction
 Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the
emergence of anatomically modern humans.

Primates (Genus : Homo)

Homo Sapiens

 This process involved the gradual development of traits such

as human bipedalism and language.
 The Evolution oh human is divided into four stages .
 Stage one
Around 15 MYA :
 Primates were dryopithecus and ramapithecus.

Dryopethicus Ramapethicus Or Sivapithecus

Hairy body. Were more man like.

Walks like gorilla, chimpanzee. Mainly upper jaw and teeths were
More like apes like humans.
Around 3 to 4 MYA :
 Some fossils were found in Ethopia and Tanzania.
 Which reveals that man like primates walked in Eastern Africa.
 But the were probably not mare than 4 feet tall but walk upright.

 Around 2 MYA :
Australopithecus
 Probably lived in African Grassland.
 They hunted with weapons made of stone.
 Essentially ate fruits.
 This creature was called the first
human like being the hominid
and was called as homo habilis.
 Second stage
Homo erectus

 Fossils were found in Java and China in 1831.

 Generally considered to have been the first species to have
expanded beyond Africa.
 These fossils revealed the next stage
i.e. Homo erectus about 15 MYA.
 Expanded braincase relative to the
size of the face.
 Brain capacity : 900 cc.
 Probably ate “meat”.
 Third stage
Neanderthal

 Lived near East and Central Asia

between 1,00,000 to 40,000 years
back.
 Brain capacity : 1400 cc.
 They apparently stood 5 to 6 feet
tall.
 They used “hides” to protect their
body and burry their dead.
 Fourth stage

Homo sapiens

 Arose in Africa and moved across different

continents and developed different/distinct
races.
 During the ice-age between 75,000 to 10,000
years ago, modern homo sapiens ( or modern
humans ) arose.
 Pre-historic cave art developed about 18,000
years ago.
 Agriculture came around 10,000 years back.
 Human settlement started from here.