The transition between premodern and anatomically modern forms of humans may have occurred as early as 500,000 years ago in Africa. The first modern Homo sapiens evolved from Western Europe.

What does the Regional Continuity Model of modern Homo sapiens origins not propose? a. Local populations would have evolved totally independently from one another. Premodern populations in Europe, Asia, and Africa all evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

The regional continuity model (or multiregional evolution model) advocated by Milford Wolpoff proposes that modern humans evolved more or less simultaneously in all major regions of the Old World from local archaic humans. However, regional varieties, or subspecies, of humans are expected to have existed.

Terms in this set (29) What can be said about the dispersal of Middle Pleistocene hominins? Paleoanthropologists consider__________________ to be the immediate predecessors to modern Homo sapiens. successful small game hunters, but not necessarily as successful large game hunters as modern humans.

Where does the best evidence of Middle Pleistocene human-controlled fire come from? premodern Homo sapiens.

Among the Dmanisi fossils is the skull and jaw of a toothless old adult. Overall, Dmanisi is a remarkable site, preserving not only one of the most important Paleolithic occupations of Eurasia, but also a rich archaeological record of Georgia’s Medieval period.

Dmanisi, site of paleoanthropological excavations in southern Georgia, where in 1991 a human jaw and teeth showing anatomical similarities to Homo erectus were unearthed.

Mashavera River Valley

Dmanisi is located in southern Georgia, about 85 kilometres (52.8 miles) from the country’s capital, Tbilisi….Further discoveries.

Homo ergaster

Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the “microscopic traces of wood ash” as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning some 1,000,000 years ago, has wide scholarly support.

Hominin, any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens, or human beings. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, some of which are now quite well known from fossil remains: H.

For instance, there is consensus among scientists that the three most recent species of hominids (Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, and modern humans, Homo sapiens) all evolved from an earlier species called Homo erectus.

australopithecines

A hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, the great apes: orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. A hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae: gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans (excludes orangutans). A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini: chimpanzees and humans.

Balangoda Man

Neanderthals are hominids in the genus Homo, humans, and generally classified as a distinct species, H. neanderthalensis, although sometimes as a subspecies of modern human as H. sapiens neanderthalensis.

Homo sapiens, (Latin: “wise man”) the species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not extinct.

Somewhere we got the idea that “caveman” courtship involved a man clubbing a woman over the head and dragging her by the hair to his cave where he would, presumably, copulate with an unconscious or otherwise unwilling woman.

Assortative mating. Human mating is inherently non-random.

The civilization of Ice Age people popularly known as cavemen lived on the European continent 30,000 to 10,000 years ago. In between, about 1.5 million years ago, Earth underwent a dramatic climatic cooling known as the Ice Age.

around 30 to 35 years