Human evolution

A few bones and teeth have been discovered.

Many think they walked upright because of grooves on the femur, but they conserved tree-climbing skills.

About the size of modern chimpanzees, they ate mostly fruits.

They walked on two feet, but they could still grasp with their big toe to climb.

They had reduced canine teeth.

Their brain was the size of a modern chimpanzee's.

Known for their famous fossil «Lucy», they were slenderly built.

With smaller canines, their brain was relatively modest.

They were definitely bipedal, but the anatomy of their hands, feet and shoulder joints shows they were equally competent in the trees.

All Paranthropus species were bipedal and many lived at the same time as our own genus Homo.

They ate harder plant material and roots.

There are big differences between Paranthropus and Australopithecus skulls, the first are more massive and have a crest at the top like gorillas.

They were short, with very long arms and a cranial capacity about half the size of modern humans.

They are known for the primitive stone tools they produced.

They walked bipedally, but retained an ape-like morphology.

They are thought to be direct ancestors of Homo sapiens.

They stood over six feet tall and used more diverse and sophisticated stone tools.

They walked like present-day humans and their big toe could not grasp anymore.

They were some of the earliest fossils discovered, so they were named «Upright man» before it was found that bipedalism had been going on for a long time.

They possibly lived in hunter-gatherer societies and were probably the first migrating humans.

They used primitive tools compared to Homo ergaster.

Their brain was almost as large as today's humans.

Recent findings suggest that they were right handed and that they buried their dead.

Their footprints show that their bone structure and gait were identical to modern humans.

Recent studies (2010) suggest that there was some interbreeding with Homo sapiens sapiens.

The Neanderthal's brain size was comparable, if not larger than our own.

They were heavily built and much stronger than Homo sapiens.

Their diet was almost exclusively carnivorous.

Discovered in 2002, they were nicknamed «hobbits».

Their extinction possibly occurred as recently as 12,000 years ago, so they probably lived along modern humans.

They had very small bodies and brains.

Some isolated groups may have survived up to a few centuries ago.

Modern humans are all Homo sapiens sapiens (wise wise human), the only remaining species of the Homo genus, but they don't fit their name very well.

Humans have progressed in intelligence, but have lost their strength during their evolution and are now proportionally 3 to 10 times weaker than the other great apes.

With a more erect posture, they are among the best long-distance runners of the animal world.