face and teeth. Its skull, face and teeth are similar to the skull, face, and
teeth of a gibbon. A gibbon is described as an animal with a slender body with
long dangling arms. Scientists believe that Phiolethecus probably have used its
arms in order to swing from tree to tree throughout the jungle. The Proconsul
is an early ape, which was once considered to be a distinct genus. A genus is
defined as a class or group of species. The Proconsul is defined as a subgenus
of Dryopithecus. Dryopithecus is an ape that evolved in Africa in various
forms. It is believed that they are distant ancestors of the chimpanzee. In
addition, it is a larger form and predecessor of the gorilla. First of the
fossil great apes to be discovered, Dryopithecus was spread out and distributed
throughout Europe, India, China and Africa. On the contrary, the skeleton of
Dryopithecus is still frustratingly incomplete. The skeleton has been
reconstructed by used the jaw and tooth bone fragments. Standing at bout four feet
tall and weighing about eighty pounds, Oreopitecus is a possible branch of the
human’s family tree. With the evidence of its teeth and pelvis, Oreopithecus is
regarded as an ancestor to the ape or an ancestor to monkeys. As I have
described earlier, Ramapithecus is the earliest primate to be considered a
direct ancestor of modern day human beings. The creature, which is three to
four feet tall, is the Ramapithecus species. They were hominid in shape because
it only consists of few teeth, and the fragments of the upper and lower jaws
are similar to a hominid. Australopithecus Africanus is the first definite
human ancestor, which is four million years younger than Ramapithecus. During
the time of Ramapithecus and Australopithecus Africanus, these pre-humans made
great technological advances. Such advances of becoming bipedal. With the aid
of bipedalism, this species lived on the ground for the majority of its life.
In addition, the advances of the use of stone, bone and wood were used as tools
and weapons. Similarly to Australopithecus Africanus, Australopithecus Robustus
lived in South Africa. The Australopithecus Robustus is a definite descendant
of Australopithecus Africanus. Australopithecus Boisei is the greatest in size
of all the australopithecines, which lived in East Africa. It is the largest of
the australopithecines because it has developed more massive teeth and
jawbones. Unfortunately, Australopithecus Boisei became extinct. The Advanced
Australopithecus is signified from the other australopithecines because of
advanced features such as greater intelligence. Many scientists feel that this
australopithecine should be regarded as a true man. They also call Advanced
Australopithecus "Homo habilis." On the contrary, Homo Erectus, in
1950, was classified as the first true man. Homo Erectus contained more
primitive of a brain, which had a cranial capacity to half of the Homo sapiens.
In addition, Homo Erectus led a social life and came under the use of fire and
could believably talk. The Neanderthal Man was a survivor. It had a cranial
capacity, which was similar in size to modern humans. The Neanderthal Man had
basic advances in life style. The Neanderthal Man made basic clothes and
constructed tools of advanced design. The Cro-Magnon Man is regarded has the
first fine artist on earth. Proof of this fine artistry is that of rich records
of accomplishments in cave paintings, which Cro-Magnon made. He made these
records From stone engravings and carved figures. Cro-Magnon amazingly spread
to all habitable parts of the world. Modern Man, us, has learned from the
teaching and evolvement of the Cro-Magnon. We have learned to grow our own food
and domesticate our animals. In addition we possessed the control over the
environment and created cites and established civilizations.
We act like animals, we eat like animals, and we are animals. The many theories
of evolution such as Darwin’s theory of evolution prove to us that we choose to
believe that we are not animals when we really are. With the amazing changes
and evolvement our species has undergone and as the twenty first century
approaches us, who knows what forms of evolutionary change will come of us.