Early Hominid

By KyleLown
  • 2 BCE

    Homo habilis

    Homo habilis
    2.33-1.4 million years old, there cranial capacity is slightly less than half that of a modern human and they were the first to use crude stone tools
  • 1 BCE

    Homo ergaster

    Homo ergaster
    They are 1.8-1.3 million years old, and was originally proposed as a separate species, Homo ergaster is now mostly considered either an early form, or an African variety, of Homo erectus.
  • 1 BCE

    Homo erectus

    Homo erectus
    1.8 million - 300,000 years old and used stone tools for cutting and chopping
  • 1 BCE

    Homo heidelbergensis

    Homo heidelbergensis
    600-400,000 years old and used stone tools similar to Homo Erectus. Was the first species to build shelter building simple dwellings out of sticks and rocks
  • 1 BCE

    Homo neanderthalensis

    Homo neanderthalensis
    Existed between 600 - 350,000 years ago and there is evidence of populations having existed until 24,000 years ago. Thought to have interbred with another contemporary species.
  • 1 BCE

    Homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens
    Modernity about 200,000 years ago, behavioural modernity about 100 - 50,000 years ago

  • Citations

    (2018, December 13) Homo heidelbergensis. Retrieved from http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-heidelbergensis