Basic stages of Human Evolution.

1. EVOLUTION OF MAN
MAN A UNIQUE PRODUCT OF EVOLUTIONARY
FORCES.

2. CLASSIFICATION
PHYLUM :CHORDATA
CLASS :MAMMALIA
ORDER :PRIMATES
SUB ORDER :ANTHROPOIDEA
GENU :HOMO
SPECIES :SAPIENS

3. MAN
APPEARED
ABOUT
3 MILLION
YEARS
AGO

4. ANCESTORS OF MAN

5. FOSSILS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

6. PROPLIOPITHECUS
• APE-LIKE
PRIMATE.
• SHORT ARMS.
• LIVED IN
OLIGOCENE
PERIOD
• ANCESTORS OF
MODERN APES
AND MAN.

7. AEGYPTOPITHECUS
• FOSSIL APE.
• SIMILAR TO
PROPLIOPITH
ECUS.
• LIVED IN
MIOCENE
PERIOD.

8. DRYOPITHECUS
• LIVED IN
MIOCENE PERIOD.
• DESCENDED
FROM
PROPLIOPITHECU
S.
• FORE LIMBS
SHORTER THAN
HIND LIMBS.
• DISTANT
ANCESTOR OF
MAN.

9. RAMAPITHECUS
• APE-MAN.
• LIVED IN LATE
MIOCENE AND
EARLY PLIOCENE
PERIOD.
• FOSSIL CONTAINS
ONLY JAWS AND
DENTITION.
• COLLECTED FROM
INDIA AND AFRICA.
• DIRECT ANCESTOR

10. AUSTRALOPITHECUS
• APE-MAN.
• CONNECTING
LINK BETWEEN
MAN AND APE.
• AUSTRALOPITHE
CUS AFRICANUS
IS A COMMON
FOSSIL.

11. 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.

12. HOMO ERECTUS
• FIRST TRUE MAN.
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• CONNECTING LINK
BETWEEN APE-
MAN AND
MODERN MAN.
• ALSO CALLED
JAVA MAN.
• LIVED IN JAVA
AND PEKING.

13. FEATURES OF HOMO ERECTUS
• BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION.
• TALLER THAN
AUSTRALOPITHECUS.
• FLATTENED SKULL.
• CANNIBALISTIC.
• THEY WERE HUNTERS AND
GATHERERS.
• LESS BODY HAIR AND BLACK.

14. HEIDELBERG MAN
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• FOUND NEAR
HEIDELBERG
RIVER.
• ANCESTOR TO
NEANDERTHAL
MAN.
• HOMO
HEIDELBERGENS

15. RHODESIAN MAN
• PRIMITIVE MAN.
• FOUND IN
RHODESIA.
• LIVED IN LATE
PLIOCENE
PERIOD.
• RECEDING
FOREHEAD.
• HOMO

16. NEANDERTHAL MAN
• ADVANCED
PRIMITIVE MAN.
• FOUND IN NEANDER
VALLEY.
• ORIGINATED
1,50,000 YEARS
AGO.
• EXTINCT 25,000
YEARS AGO.
• HOMO
NEANDERTHALENSI
S.

17. FEATURES OF NEANDERTHAL
MAN
• SLIGHTLY SHORTER THAN
MODERN MAN.
• LOW FOREHEAD.
• LARGE TEETH.
• SKILLFUL USE OF TOOLS.
• DEVELOPED SPEECH.

18. 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