The Evolution Of Humans

Introduction

      Humans evolved from early primates like apes including Australopithecus (as- tro- a - pith- a - kiss).   Apes are kind of like monkeys, but not like monkeys like today. There are different early hominids.  Some of them ate termites and meat. Others ate honey and bone meat. At first we were harry like your grandpa or dad. But over time, we got less and less hairier. When you think ape you might think Neanderthal. If we travel back in time, we can see that we used stone tools. Stone tools have to be sharp and cone shaped.

                                       

Eating and Cooking

     We have also changed by our bones. When we were apes we had our pelvis lower down because all of our gut was lower. It was also harder to chew. We were also not cooking until about 1.8 Million- 200,000 years ago. It was Homo erectus who used fire for cooking.  When we started cooking it was easier to chew.

Fire and Tools

         From studies and information we can tell that we used fire for scaring away big cats.  Like lions and tigers.  We used stone tools for cutting meat, killing animals and cleaning animal skins.  With the meat that we killed we used fire to cook it.

                                             Early Villages

       When you think village you might think stone houses or little cottages. Well you’re right.  But a little while back in time were we lived in little tents made of animal skin, animal bones and tree branches.                

Fruit and Pets

       “Pets!  What do you mean by that!”  What I mean is that we had pets such as tam wolfs.  “Why would we need pets?”  To keep us happy and cheerful. 

      We did eat berries and other fruit.  Why?  We need their vitamins for our health.  And fruit is also good for long journey trips. 

                                         A Reader’s Note

       Learn any thing new? Well, I hope so!  If you are a parent that knows that he or she never new that.  Well good for you!  Did you notice that each paragraph was going forward in time?  And that you were reading to the end of this?  Well is that funny!  I am just 9 years old and I wrote this all!  Well hear are some pictures of some of our ancient cousins!

 No! Wrong anster!      

                                                                                                                                

Australopithecus afarensis, adult male - http://humanorigins.si.edu

That’s right! 

sources:

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History