HOMININ TRAITS What’s Been Passed Down From the Earliest Human to Homo Sapiens?

1. HOMININ TRAITSWhat’s Been Passed Down From the Earliest Human to Homo Sapiens?

2. What’s Most Important? • What makes us hominins? • we can tell that we are hominins and why, but how? • Many ideas say thing they think are most important about us as hominins. • What traits do we have from early hominins?

3. The First Hominin • A hominin is different than a monkey. • The first hominin we know of was called Sahelanthropus tchadensis. • They resemble humans most in the way that they have a flat face and small canines. • 7 millions years ago. • Not bipedal.

4. Sahelanthropus tchadensis

5. Bipedal Walking • First bipedal hominin was Orrorin tugenesis. (6.2 million years ago. • Only humans walk bipedal. • People think we started walking on two legs because we lived in an open plane now so we would be faster on two legs. • Some say we became bipedal because we started using tools and we needed the two arms for tools.

6. Animals and Us • Animals are very important to humans we chose to love them and use them. • We have started loving and hunting animals from early hominins. • When we look at early art it revolves around animals. • Our bodies weren’t made for hunting animals so we would have hade to make the choice to hunt them. Maybe by using tools. • Because we started using animals so much we would have hade to evolve to be able to use and eat them. • Only we have such an obsession for interest in studying other animals.

7. There’s many ways that we are like the early hominins, and I just told you some of those ways.