What are the specific names of the species of humankind featured on the common model of human evolution?-Collection of common programming errors

• Nothing to do with actual human evolution From right to left # 6 Homo sapiens: Could be modern man or Cro-Magno as well # 5 H. neanderthalensis (from chin and eyebrow shape): not a H. sapiens ancestor, a distant cousin and our neighbor in Europe at Middle Paleolithic. # 4 not sure, the drawer is definitely not a paleoanthropologist – maybe H. heidelbergensis: close to Neanderthal/sapiens common ancestor but more likely on Neanderthal side – or H. antecessor ancestor of both heidelbergensis and sapiens – or one among several H. erectus subspecies (H. ergaster Asian cousins) little or no contribution to our heritage # 3 probably H. habilis officially earliest human because he could make stone tools, but not a good bipedal, still hairy unlike our ancestor H.ergaster the Marathon runner. # 2 undefined australopithecine, there were a dozen of species, only one is our ancestor. # 1 Pan troglodyte, aka modern chimpanzee, of course not our ancestor, because like modern humans, modern chimpanzees didn’t exist back then.

  It’s stupid to put it on the left of what is supposed to be a chronology line

• That “evolutionary chart” is a misnomer and it’s commonly used to depict human evolution in a rudimentary way. This juxtaposition of primate species is a caricature and it does not adequately describe our evolutionary history after the split from the Pan lineage roughly 6-8 million years ago.

Originally posted 2013-11-09 20:03:39.