Re: "People first lived in Britain about 700,000 years ago" ?
- From: Tom McDonald <kiltmac@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:59:50 -0500
bent wrote:
I learned this ten years ago.
dryopithecus
ramopithecus
australopithecus
homo habilus
homo erectus
homo sapiens
I don't know what or why a homo sapiens sapiens is.
Homo sapiens sapiens is us, in the last ca. 100,000 years or so.
There are older versions of Homo sapiens, just before us, called 'Archaic Homo sapiens' (AHS).
Try this as an outline of current (well, 2003) thinking about our relatives in the last 4 million years or so:
http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/Encarta/encarta.htm
or:
http://tinyurl.com/2ydyxu
The relevant links:
Primate Origins:
Primates
Humans as Primates
The Fossil Primates
The First Humans: The Early Australopiths
From Ape to Human
The Australopiths:
Early Australopiths
Ardipithecus ramidus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
The Later Australopiths
Paranthropus aethiopicus
Paranthropus boisei
Paranthropus robustus
The Fate of the Later Australopiths
The Genus Homo:
The Origin of the Genus Homo
Early Homo
Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
Middle Homo
Homo ergaster
Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis
Why Did Humans Spread Out of Africa?
Late Homo
Neanderthals and Other Archaic Humans
Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens
I really am out of my element here. In fact this is little more value to me than a school pep-song. When spell checking these half weren't even at m-w.com! But half way it said something about a small brain so I'm in the right place. I can only say I believe it, which is ignorant. There are apparently rules, which may be true, which could clear this up for myself. I don't know if Homo Hiedelbergensis is a new entry in this list, a substitution, a side branch, or even if I can can connect one to the other and how. When I hear Neanderthal I just scratch my head!
It does take some reading, but it isn't terribly difficult if you keep at it.
Another short intro to human evolution that might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution
Which includes this listing:
# 3 Genus Homo
* 3.1 Homo habilis
* 3.2 Homo rudolfensis and Homo georgicus
* 3.3 Homo ergaster and Homo erectus
* 3.4 Homo cepranensis and Homo antecessor
* 3.5 Homo heidelbergensis
* 3.6 Homo neanderthalensis
* 3.7 Homo rhodesiensis, and the Gawis cranium
* 3.8 Homo sapiens
* 3.9 Homo floresiensis
* 3.10 Comparative table of Homo species
Then theres the part about all that ice 1-1/2 mile thick. The same ice making east or west to N.A. possible..
"Digger" <p.dunn1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qfXCj.24$va4.7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNot sure of the timeframe as human origins is a distant part of my first degree course but Homo Hiedelbergensis is certainly known to have inhabited what is now the British Isles, (at least the southern part)
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