Human Evolution  

Introduction: Human belongs to order primates. Other members of the same order were lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkey and apes. Human are closer to the ape, which in turn, are closer to the older world monkey. Together, human, monkey and ape belongs to suborder anthropoidea (Figure 10.1). In the current lecture, we will discuss evolutionary stages in the development of modern age man from the initial mammals.

 

 

Figure 10.1 : Classification of humans among the primates.

Prehuman Evolution: Human evolution starts with the appearance of first mammals on earth. Mammals are further evolved into different classes including primates to which man belongs.