Human Evolution Timeline

1. About 800,000 years ago, FIRE was controlled by early humans.
2. About 4 million years ago most early human species became bipedal.
3. The Homo Habilis used to live in Eastern and southern Africa.
4. About 12,000 years ago, humans managed to control the growth and breeding of some plants and animals.
5. The sahelanthropus tchadensis is the earliest human species from the timeline.

Answer these questions:


1. What's been the role of climate change in the development of humans?

the role  the climate change is very important, because helped to the survive, give them more adaptation  and a lot of the significant milestones in the evolution human was provocated for this.


2. In your opinion, what is the most significant milestone for the human evolution? Why?

the rapid increases in brain size because helped to the human survive give them the capacite to  resolve problems and thinking, for example, how build a tool to hunter .

3. Which early human species was thought to be the first to use tools made from stone?

the homo habilis was thought to represent the first stone toolmaker.


4. Who were the first human species to travel to and live in Europe? When?

the homo heidelbergensis, about 700.000 to 200.000 years ago.

5. Which species survived for the longest time? For how long?

the Homo erectus, between about 1.89 million and 143.000 years ago  it was a longest- lived species on our family tree. surviving more than nine times as long as our own species.