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Homo (from Latin homÅ 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Includes both Homo and Pan (chimpanzees), but not Gorilla. 10–8 Subtribe: Hominina: Genus Homo and close human relatives and ancestors after splitting from Pan—the hominins: 8–4 [2] (Genus) Ardipithecus s.l. 6-4 (Genus) Australopithecus: 3 Genus: Homo: Humans: 2.5 (Species) H. erectus s.l. (Species) H. heidelbergensis s.l. Species: Homo ...
The genus Homo has been taken to originate some two million years ago, since the discovery of stone tools in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in the 1960s. Homo habilis (Leakey et al., 1964) would be the first "human" species (member of genus Homo) by definition, its type specimen being the OH 7 fossils.
Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelli) Hominoidea is a superfamily of primates. Members of this superfamily are called hominoids or apes, and include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons, bonobos, and humans. Hominoidea is one of the six major groups in the order Primates. The majority are found in forests in Southeastern Asia and Equatorial Africa, with the exception of humans, which have ...
The name Homo of the biological genus to which humans belong is Latin for 'human'. [e] It was chosen originally by Carl Linnaeus in his classification system. [f] The English word human is from the Latin humanus, the adjectival form of homo. The Latin homo derives from the Indo-European root * dhghem, or 'earth'. [222]
Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates—in particular genus Homo—and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.
English: Chris Stringers' hypothesis of the family tree of genus Homo, published in Stringer, C. (2012). "What makes a modern human". Nature 485 (7396): 33–35. doi:10.1038/485033a. "Homo floresiensis originated in an unknown location from unknown ancestors and reached remote parts of Indonesia."
Homo erectus: 2001 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4) 1.81±0.40 Homo erectus: 2003 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze: D4500 (Dmanisi Skull 5) 1.81±0.40 Homo erectus: 2005 (published in 2013) Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze: KNM-ER 62000–62003 [42] 1.84±0.60 Homo rudolfensis: 2012 ...