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    Human Biocultural and Sociopolitical Evolution

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    Homo habilis lived between 2.3-1.5 million years ago and was given the name "handy man" because stone tools were found near its fossil remains, indicating it had the ability to modify stones into tools. Homo erectus lived from 1.89 million to 143,000 years ago, was the first to leave Africa and master fire, and had a wide variety of forms known as Turkana Boy, Peking Man, and Java Man. Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods before going extinct around 28,000 years ago, while all living people today belong to the species Homo sapiens, who evolved recently but have spread worldwide with culture and technology

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    Homo habilis lived between 2.3-1.5 million years ago and was given the name "handy man" because stone tools were found near its fossil remains, indicating it had the ability to modify stones into tools. Homo erectus lived from 1.89 million to 143,000 years ago, was the first to leave Africa and master fire, and had a wide variety of forms known as Turkana Boy, Peking Man, and Java Man. Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods before going extinct around 28,000 years ago, while all living people today belong to the species Homo sapiens, who evolved recently but have spread worldwide with culture and technology

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    Homo habilis lived between 2.3-1.5 million years ago and was given the name "handy man" because stone tools were found near its fossil remains, indicating it had the ability to modify stones into tools. Homo erectus lived from 1.89 million to 143,000 years ago, was the first to leave Africa and master fire, and had a wide variety of forms known as Turkana Boy, Peking Man, and Java Man. Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods before going extinct around 28,000 years ago, while all living people today belong to the species Homo sapiens, who evolved recently but have spread worldwide with culture and technology

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    Human Biocultural and Sociopolitical Evolution

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    Homo habilis lived between 2.3-1.5 million years ago and was given the name "handy man" because stone tools were found near its fossil remains, indicating it had the ability to modify stones into tools. Homo erectus lived from 1.89 million to 143,000 years ago, was the first to leave Africa and master fire, and had a wide variety of forms known as Turkana Boy, Peking Man, and Java Man. Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods before going extinct around 28,000 years ago, while all living people today belong to the species Homo sapiens, who evolved recently but have spread worldwide with culture and technology

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    Human Biocultural and Sociopolitical

    Evolution
    Age
    This species lived between about 2.3 and 1.5 million
    years ago.

    What the name means


    Homo, is a Latin word meaning ‘human’ or ‘man’.
    This is the same genus or group name as the one give
    to modern humans and is used to show the close
    relationship between this species and our own.
    The word habilis is based on a Latin word meaning
    ‘handy’ or ‘skilful’.
    This species known as ‘handy man’ because stone
    tools were found near its fossil remains and it is
    assumed this species had developed the ability to
    modify stone into tools.
    Homo erectus is a fellow member of our own genus. Alive from
    1.89 million years ago to 143,000 years ago, he was the first to leave
    Africa and the first to master the use of fire. Known in Africa as
    Turkana Boy, in China as Peking Man, and in Indonesia as Java
    Man, H. erectus had a wide variety of forms.
    Neanderthals co-existed with 
    modern humans for long periods of
    time before eventually becoming
    extinct about 28,000 years ago. 
    All people living today belong to the species Homo sapiens. 
    We evolved only relatively recently but with complex culture and 
    technology have been able to spread throughout the world and occupy
    a range of different environments.
    In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million
    years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in
    caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters
    and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone
    tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting
    birds and wild animals. They cooked their prey,
    including woolly mammoths, deer and bison,
    using controlled fire. They also fished and
    collected berries, fruit and nuts.

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