Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/NHM Galleries/Central Hall/Our Place in Evolution

Our living relatives

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  Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus)
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  White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
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  Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
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  Human being (Homo sapiens)
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  Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
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  Fossil skulls x 4 (models)

Our fossil relatives

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  Proconsul africanus
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  Kenyapithecus wickeri
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  Dryopithecus fontani
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  Sivapithecus meteai
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  Sivapithecus punjabicus (Bramapithecus thorpei)
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  Sivapithecus punjabicus (Dryopithecus punjabicus)
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  Sivapithecus punjabicus (Ramapithecus Brevirostris)
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  Sivapithecus sivalensis
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  Sivapithecus alp

How are…

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  Sivapithecus sivalensis
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  Orang-utan
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  Chimpanzee
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  Human being
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  Hominoid footprints (cast)
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  Australopithecine, pelvis (reconstruction)
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  Australopithecine, part of left thigh bone (reconstruction)
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  Australopithecine, part of skull
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  Australopithecine, part of skull
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  Gracile australopithecine, skull and brain (cast)
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  Australopithecine, part of skull
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  Australopithecine, adult female (reconstruction)
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  Chimpanzee
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  Human being
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  Australopithecine, jaw
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  Robust australopithecine, lower jaw
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  Robust australopithecine, lower jaw
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  Australopithecinus africanus, part of skull
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  Australopithecinus africanus, lower jaw
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  Australopithecinus afarensis (cast of skeleton)

Recent discoveries

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  Paranthropus aethiopicicus, skull (cast)
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  Homo rudolfensis, skull (cast)
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  Australopithecus anamensis, shin bone (cast)
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  Australopithecus anamensis, jawbone (cast)

Low-tech tools

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  Early stone tools x 5 (casts)
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  Homo georgicus? skull and jawbone (casts)
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  Homo neanderthalensis? skull and jawbone

Humans as tool makers

Habilines

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  Habiline, part of skull
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  Flake tool and pebble tool
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  Pebble tool
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  Habiline, part of skull

How are the habilines related to us as human beings

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  Habiline, part of skull

Humans have large brains

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  Brain cast

The habilines made tools

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  Stone flake tool
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  Hammerstone tool
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  Living floor with stone tools and bones (reconstruction)

The Homo erectus people

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  Homo erectus, lower jaw (Homo erectus, originally Homo heidelbergensis)
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  Homo erectus, skull (reconstruction based on fragments) (Homo erectus, originally Sinanthropus pekinensis)
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  Homo erectus, lower jaw (Homo erectus, originally Telanthropus capensis)
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  Homo erectus, part of skull (Homo erectus, originally Homo leakeyi)
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  Homo erectus, part of skull (Homo erectus, originally Javanthropus soloensis)
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  Homo erectus, 'Trinil Man' , part of skull Homo erectus, originally Pithecanthropus erectus)

How are the Homo erectus people related to modern humans?

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  Living floor showing evidence of fire (reconstruction)
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  Homo erectus - 'Peking man' (model reconstruction)
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  Homo erectus - 'Peking man' (model reconstruction)
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  Modern human, skull (model)

The Neandertals

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  An early Briton, neandertal, three bones from skull
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  Neandertal, part of skull (Originally called Homo neanderthalensis)
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  Neandertal, part of skull
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  Neandertal, skull
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  A neanderal woman (model reconstruction)
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  Flake tool
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  Burnt bone