Question

Time	Genus	Species	Cranial Capacity	Important Features	World Locations/Comments
	Ardipithecus	Ramidus vs Orrorin vs Sahelanthropus (Toumai)
	Australopithecus	anamensis
	Australopithecus	afarensis
	Australopithecus	africanus garhi
	Paranthropus (australopithecus in our Larsen text)	aethiopicus robustus boisei – nutcracker man
	Homo	habilis (Early Homo)
	Homo	Erectus (sometimes you hear Homo ergaster as an early version but this is going away)
	Homo	neanderthalensis
	Homo	sapiens (Anatomically Modern Human)
	Homo	floresiensis

Answer 1

Time	genus	species	cranial capacity	important features	world locations
4.4 million years ago	Ardipithecus	Ramidus vs Orrorin vs Sahelanthropus (Toumai)	300 to 350 cubic centimeters	They have a big grasping toe as an adaptation to climb trees,skeleton reflect an adaptation to bipedalism and has reduced canine teeth.	First fossil found in the middle awash area of ethiopia.
between 4.2 and 3.8 million years ago	Australopithecus	anamensis	unknown	oldest australopithecus species.Have common traits of apes and humans.Long forearm and indications of bipedal walking,human like orientation of ankle joint	First fossil discovered from kanapoi in northern Kenya.then from ethiopia
4 to 3 million years ago	Australopithecus	afarensis	415 cc	long,strong arms with curved fingers,ape like face projection,small canine teeth,stood on twolegs and often walked upright.	found in east and northeast africa.
between 3 and 2 million years ago	Australopithecus	africanus	461 cc	slightly curved finger and toe bones,long arms,ability to walk on two legs	fossils found in south africa
2.5 milion years ago	Australopithecus	garhi	450 cc	longer arms than legs	found in the middle awash of ethiopia
between2.7 to 2.5 million years ago	Paranthropus	aethiopicus	410 cc	strong protruding face,strong jawssagittal crest on top of skull	found in ethiopia and kenya
2.4 to 1.5 million years ago	Homo	habilis	500 to nearly 800 cc	slightly large brain case with smaller face and teeth,human like bones and long arms	They inhabited parts of africa nad fossils found from tamzania
2 million years ago	Homo	erectus	850 cc	skeleon similar to humans,wide fleshy nose,flat face with prominent ridges on skull	fossils found across the world like south africa,kenya,spain,china and java
about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago	Homo	neanderthalis	1500 cc	closest extinct human relative,long and low skull,brow ridge over their eyes,big and wide nose.Adapted to cold	first fossil found in the feldhofer cave of the neander valley,germany.They were distributed across eurasia.
3,00000 to 1,60,000years ago	Homo	sapiens	1350 cc	back of skull is rounded,orbits are square than round,face is small with projecting nose bone.	Fossil found from africa and many other sites of world
1,00,000 to 60,000 years ago	Homo	floresiensis	417 cc	large teeth with no chin,receding foreheads and large feet for short legs.	Fossils were found on the islands of Flores,Indonesia.