History of Monkeys

Dawrin’s theory

Charles Darwin was born 12 February 1809 and died 19 April 1882. He was a scientist who studied living things. He travelled around the world on ships, studying different kinds of animals and birds.


Darwin released a book in 1859 called The Origin of Species. His idea was that all living things originated from one common ancestor and evolved over millions and millions of years


The idea of natural selection means that animals/organisms with desirable traits (e.g. things about them that helped them to survive, like their size, camouflage, long neck, etc) would survive and pass their traits onto their children. The ones with undesirable traits (e.g. too small, too slow, couldn’t hide, couldn’t fight back) were eaten and their traits were not passed on


Released another book called The Descent of Man in 1871 which talks about human evolution specifically. How animals evolved from water to live on land

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Early fish started to go coles to land then after a long time the fish involved to go on land for a short time there limbs got stronger then the fish involved to have lunges then the first amphibian like animals come about after years of evolution it was the rain of the.  First had to evolve stronger rib cage, shoulders and limbs to hold up its own body weight

Hominins - (Mariah) (Railey)

Lived in Africa
Had grasp
6 million years ago
130cm tall
Weighted for about 35kg
Hominins used to draw things in caves
The first Hominins appeared around 3 million years ago.
The old Hominins lived for 5.8 million years ago
Were bipedal
They have a family
They eat hard item such as seeds and nuts
Are close related to humans or homosapin




Homo habilis - Hope

Used tools
Lived 2 million years ago
Bipedal with no grasping feet
3 to 4 million years ago
Family is Hominidae
Were only on average 4 to 3 inches tall
1.44 million years old
Mark leakly discovered homo habilis
Were flexible
Were versatile
Were able to eat tough food like leaves and woody plants
Lived in small groups
Most ancient representative of human genus
Inhabited parts of sub saharan africa from roughly 2.4 - 1.5 million years ago
Had several teeth in the lower jaw
The homo habilis brain ranged in size from 550cm cubed to 687cm cubed
The tools made by homo habilis were made from volcanic rock cobbles



Homo erectus Michael and Davlyn



Homo erectus had Larger brains then the homohabilis. They were the first to leave Africa arou, then the homo erectus went into Europe/Asia. Their hands used to look like a foot but then it changed into a hand, then they had Dexterous Fingers which means they can use them. Homo erectus is a Bipedal which means they stand on two long legs. By 800,000 years ago, they used fire to cook food. Homo erectus is an extinct species of archaic humans from the pleistocene. Homo erectus Height is 1.4 to 1.8m. Their brain size is 550-1,250 cm. They weigh about 41 kg to 65 kg. They are found in Africa, Asia and perhaps Europe. Their appearance is human-like body proportions and upright stance, a protruding brow ridge, large face and no chin.





H omo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals) - Wesley.

Lived in southern europe
Existed around 1,000,000 years ago
Came out of Africa 200,000 million years ago
large nose, strong double-arched brow ridge, relatively short and stocky bodies.
Height about 1.50-1.75m
Neanderthals lived alongside early modern humans for at least part of their existence.
Some modern humans have 2% neanderthal DNA
Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia while modern humans - our species, Homo sapiens - were evolving in Africa.
Their front teeth were large, and scratch-marks show they were regularly used like a third hand when preparing food and other materials
They are modern humans closest relatives
Monkeys are there closest to their relatives
Made their own spears and flint handaxes.
Some evidence to say they looked after their sick and buried their dead,
They ate large mammals that they caught, some fungi (e.g. mushrooms) and some plants
Neanderthal - named after an area called Neander Valley in Germany where fossils were found



Homo sapien - (nitika and kymani)

Adaptable to different climates
sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo.
Sapien is another human but their brains were not as smart as our brains today.
Lived all around the world
The Life span is 79 years (good Job)
Interbreed with the other spe
They are highly intelligent primate

Homo sapiens sapiens is the name given to our species if we are considered a subspecies larger group. This name is used by those that describe the specimen from Herto, Ethiopia as Homo sapiens idàltu or by those who believed that modern humans and the Neanderthals were members of the same species sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo. Modern humans are sometimes called "anatomically modern humans". Homo sapiens considers itself the most influential species on the planet, but many species of life, mostly plants and protists, have had a much greater effect on the outside of Earth and its air.


They were naked at that time cause they had no clothes and shoes
Male Homo sapien height is 1.7cm female 1.6cm mo