HOMININ TRAITSWhat’s Been Passed Down From the Earliest Human to Homo Sapiens?

What’s Most Important?

• What makes us hominins?• we can tell that we are hominins and

why, but how?• Many ideas say thing they think are

most important about us as hominins.• What traits do we have from early

hominins?

The First Hominin

• A hominin is different than a monkey.• The first hominin we know of was

called Sahelanthropus tchadensis. • They resemble humans most in the

way that they have a flat face and small canines.• 7 millions years ago.• Not bipedal.

Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Bipedal Walking

• First bipedal hominin was Orrorin tugenesis. (6.2 million years ago.

• Only humans walk bipedal.• People think we started walking on two

legs because we lived in an open plane now so we would be faster on two legs.

• Some say we became bipedal because we started using tools and we needed the two arms for tools.

Animals and Us

• Animals are very important to humans we chose to love them and use them.

• We have started loving and hunting animals from early hominins.

• When we look at early art it revolves around animals.• Our bodies weren’t made for hunting animals so we

would have hade to make the choice to hunt them. Maybe by using tools.

• Because we started using animals so much we would have hade to evolve to be able to use and eat them.

• Only we have such an obsession for interest in studying other animals.

There’s many ways that we are like the early hominins, and I just told you some of those ways.