Steven Heslip  ~ heslipst@msu.edu

Click to explore any species classified as hominids dated to greater than 100,000 years ago:
A. ramidus (17) Here we have a comprehensive collection dealing with the history of hominid fossil finds throughout the world, starting with A. ramidus, dating to approximately 4.4 million years before present, and ending with modern day H. sapiens.
A. anamensis (38)
A. afarensis (28)
A. africanus (33)
A. garhi (9) Africa and Eurasia

Click on a region of the map to see what sorts of hominid remains have been found there

Click on a region of the map to see what sorts of hominid remains have been found there

A. bahrelghazali (1)
P. boisei (48) Click to explore the Hominid Fossils found in:
P. aethiopicus (8)
P. robustus (28) Southern Africa
H. habilis (34) Eastern Africa
H. rudolfensis (9) North Central Africa
H. erectus (21) Asia/Australia
H. ergaster (27) Europe/Northwestern Africa
H. antecessor (39)
H. heidelbergensis (7) News:
H. neanderthalensis (33)
H. sapiens (50) Kenyanthropus platyops is deemed worthy of its own genus and place in the line of human ancestry.

Click for a RealVideo movie concerning the discovery of A. garhi

Hominid Fills Gap in Fossil Record

Reconstructive work displays what the 2.5 million year old skull of Australopithecus garhi likely have looked like. Click here to view University of California, Berkeley. Anthropologist Tim White explain what this new find mean

Click here for more on A. garhi

 

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A. ramidus ~ A. anamensis ~ A. afarensis ~ A. africanus ~ A. gahri ~ A. bahrelghazali ~ P. boisei ~ P. aethiopicus ~ P. robustus ~ H. habilis ~ H. rudolfensis ~ H. erectus ~ H. ergaster ~ H. antecessor ~ H. heidelbergensis ~ H. neanderthalensis ~ H. sapiens

Southern Africa ~ Eastern Africa ~ North Central Africa ~ Asia ~ Europe/Northwestern Africa

by Steven Heslip        email me at heslipst@msu.edu