The ancient person – a loose concept. It can be the representative of the first anthropoids who appeared on Earth about thirty million years ago, he is considered the immediate ancestor of modern people. The general name of Neanderthal men – a paleantropa – is translated as "ancient people". Also ancient people it is possible to call the first individuals of the sort homo sapiens, that is kromanyonets.
Instruction
1. The anthropoids living in Africa tens of millions years ago a little in what differed from modern anthropoids – their volume of a brain, the way of movement and a way of life did not allow to call them full-fledged people. The first transitional forms of so-called highest primacies which already began to gain signs of the person appeared about four million years ago - it is Australopithecuses, with great reserve it is possible to call them ancient people. They almost like real monkeys – looked completely covered with wool, with the lower part of the person acting forward, very low and wide superciliary arches, a small brain.
2. But Australopithecuses could go on two legs, had the structure of a basin, already other than monkeys, allowing to move directly. These ancient ancestors of people were below modern representatives of the human race: they did not reach more than hundred forty centimeters in height, were harmonious and easy. Despite bipedalism, they strongly bent forward when walking, and hands at the same time hung below knees.
3. Neanderthal men, though are not considered as immediate ancestors of the modern person, nevertheless have with him many common features. Besides, according to scientists, representatives of this look were crossed to the first individuals of the homo sapiens therefore we also are with them in relationship. Neanderthal men, or paleantropa, appeared about five hundred thousand years ago. They were higher growth, than the first anthropoids, and reached hundred sixty five centimeters in height.
4. Neanderthal men had a massive figure and the head, very big in comparison with a body. They possessed powerful muscles and a strong skeleton. Not expressed chin and powerful superciliary arches in combination with a wide nose did their faces unlike the faces of modern people, but their bodies already lost the most part of hair, the brain was rather developed, and generally they had a lot of similar to the homo sapiens.
5. The first representatives of the homo sapiens living about forty thousand years ago are called kromanyonets. These ancient people almost differed in nothing from our contemporaries – they had the high growth reaching meter and eighty centimeters, the wide person with the direct forehead acting as a chin and a low nose. Superciliary rollers as at ancestors of the person, at kromanyonets was not any more. Reconstruction of shape of ancient representatives of homo sapiens on skulls show that externally they are almost indistinguishable from modern people.