SUMMARY OF HOMINID EVOLUTION Over time, our species have evolved from an ape like Miocene ancestor. The lineage as a race is filled with the ending of various species within such as the 'robust australopiths' that lived for over a million years before ceasing to exist. Assorted human qualities, like walking on two feet, changed and got better developing over time, while others, like the capacity of brain sizes, did not change until recently. Diverse qualities, like molar size, changed over time, only to be pushed back later due to ecological pressures. Some may refer to the lineage of our species linked to being a rocky lifeboat tossed around by environmental change and chance instead of a cruise ship heading towards one destination |
"Who knows where the next 6 million years will take us" HOMININS – All apes. Gibbons, gorillas, chimps, orangs and humans
HOMINIDS – All modern and extinct great apes, gorillas, chimps, orangs and humans, and their immediate ancestors not including gibbons |