Homo

Homo is the genus of great apes that includes modern humans and species closely related to them. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old, possibly having evolved from australopithecine ancestors, with the appearance of Homo habilis. Several species, including Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus afarensis, have been proposed as the direct ancestor of the Homo lineage. Each of these species have morphological features that align them with Homo, but there is no consensus on which actually gave rise to Homo. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Click the link for representations of modern human figures. Get back to Hominoidea
Homo habilis	Homo erectus	Homo neanderthalensis
Cro-Magnon	Paleolithic Homo sapiens	Modern human figures

phylum	Chordata	Homo habilis is a species of the tribe Hominini, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, between roughly 2.8 and 1.5 million years ago. In its appearance and morphology,H. habilis is the least similar to modern humans of all species in the genus Homo. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Homo‬
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Primates
family	Hominidae
genus	Homo
species	H. habilis

phylum	Chordata	Homo erectus (meaning "upright man," from the Latin ērĭgĕre, "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominin that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene epoch, with the earliest first fossil evidence dating to around 1.8 million years ago and the most recent to around 143,000 years ago. The species originated in Africa and spread as far as England, Georgia, India, Sri Lanka, China and Java. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to ‪Homo
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Primates
family	Hominidae
genus	Homo
species	H. erectus
Temporal range	1.9 – 0.1Ma

phylum	Chordata	The Neanderthals or Neandertals are an extinct species or subspecies of the genus Homo which is closely related to modern humans. They are known from fossils, dating from the Pleistocene period, which have been found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia. The species is named after Neandertal ("Neander's Valley"), the location in Germany where it was first discovered. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to ‪Homo
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Primates
family	Hominidae
genus	Homo
species	H. neanderthalensis

phylum	Chordata	Cro-Magnon is a name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to ‪Homo‬
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Primates
family	‪Hominidae‬
genus	‪Homo‬
species	H. sapiens sapiens

phylum	Chordata	Subspecies that precisely represents modern humans, the earliest of whom emerged about 200,000 years ago – the only human subspecies still alive on Earth. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to ‪Homo‬
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Primates
family	‪Hominidae‬
genus	‪Homo‬
species	H. sapiens sapiens