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 certain 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?
Climate fluctuation widened around 800.000 years ago. The fastest brain size increase in early humans ocurred during the era of greatest climate fluctuation.
Later, Earth's elongated orbit around the sun during this time led to a long period of arid-moist fluctuation in Africa. Important changes in behavior, associated with the origin of homo sapiens, also ocurred in Africa.
On the other hand, between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago, white mudcracks in an old african lake bed indicates severe drought. Due to widespread droughts and climate fluctuation during this time, the human species may have been reduced to no more than 10.000 adults of reproductive age.
Homo sapiens almost becomes extinct!
2. In your opinion, what is the most significant milestone for the human evolution? Why?
In my opinion, the most important milestone in human evolution is when he learns to control fire, because, control of fire provide a new tool with several uses-including cooking, which led to a fundamental change in the early human diet or to find safety from predators, among other things.
3. Which early human species was thought to be the first to use tools made from stone?
Was Homo habilis, this species was thought to represent the first stone toolmaker.
4. Who were the first human species to travel to and live in Europe? When?
Homo Heidelbergensis, these were the first early humans to venture into the cold latitudes of europe, where there is evidence that they were the first species to build shelters and hunt big game animals with wooden spears.
About 700.000 to 200.000 years ago.
5. Which species survived for the longest time? For how long?
Was the Homo Erectus, it was the longest-lived species on our family tree, surviving more than nine times as long as our own species.
Survived for 1.747.000 years.
Between about 1.89 million and 143.000 years ago.
