human revolution

  • HOMO HABILIS - Species with a brain of a Broca's area which is associated with speech in modern humans and was the first to make stone tools. Also named as “Handy Man”. 2.4 - 1.4 m

  • HOMO RUDOLFENSIS - Species characterized by a longer face, larger molar and premolar teeth, and having a larger braincase compared to habilis particularly larger frontal lobes, areas of the brain that processes information. The species lived about 1.9 ton 1.8 million years ago.

  • HOMO ERECTUS - The species name means "Upright Man" with body proportions similar to that of modern humans. Lived 1.89 to 143,000 years ago; adapted to hot climates and mostly spread in Africa and Asia. They were the first hunters with improvised tools such as axes and knives, and were the first to produce fire.

  • HOMO HEIDELBERGENESIS - Species with large brow ridge and short wide bodies that lived about 700,000 to 200,000 years ago in Europe and Africa. They were the first of early human species to live in colder climates, first to hunt large animals on routine basis using spears, and first to construct human shelters.

  • HOMO FLORESIENSIS - Species nicknamed "Hobbit" due to their small stature with a height of more or less 3 feet and lived 95,000 to 17,000 years ago in the island of Flores, Indonesia along with other dwarfed animal species.

  • HOMO SAPIENS - The species name means "Wise Man" that appeared form 200,000 years ago. The present human race belongs to this species.

  • HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS - Subspecies with short yet stocky in body build adapted to winter climates especially in icy cold places in Europe and Asia. The subspecies, also known as "Neanderthal Man," is the closest relative of modern humans. The first to practice burial of their dead, hunting and gathering food, and sewing clothes from animal skin using bone needles, They lived about 200,000 to 28,000 years ago.

  • HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS - Subspecies known as Cro-Magnon characterized to be anatomically modern humans and lived in the last Ice Age of Europe from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. They were the first to produce art in cave paintings and crafting decorated tools and accessories.