The Dawn of Human Evolution

Australopithecus was ape that could stand up erect. If you were to see it, you would say look that's an ape, because all the structure of this creature is similar to ape. Its brain is relatively small, jaws are larger, it has long black hairs. But its lower portion of the body is similar with that of Human than ape, that allowed them to walk upright. What caused the transition of such Australopithecus to the genus Homo is what we quite not clearly understand. From that thing we came to the Homo Erectus but that is also said to be passed through another homo species i.e. Homo habilis, but very little of its fossils have been found up to now. Finding the fossils of early humans is really tough job and its rare as well. Hence they searched for them into the deepest caves and underground structures where they discovered varieties of body parts revealing their existence. People searched  for the limestone inside cave by blasting, but what they found is amazing, fossils of earlier human kind. Raymond Dart in 1924 found something unusal in the african region, he was the lecturer at the university of Johanasberg and no one until that time believed that Africa was the cradle of human evolution. Miners had sent him the block of rock which contained skull of ape like creature. When he studied deeply he found out it was neither ape nor Human at all. He named it Australopithecan africana.


 Not in innocence not in Asia that the mankind was burned. Are we killer apes at heart? Direct evidence came from the teeths. Phycoliths were discovered from the teeth of Australopiths, microscopic remains of the plants. They could have Eaten grass, woods and fruits. Probability suggest they were not killer at all. They were not the predators but the prey. Homo habilis the handy man considered the first human with our lineage, but its a bit of the mess and not clearly understood as well. It was found with the tools hence considered into Homo lineage,so little of it has been found. They made star expedition project to study about probable skeleton of Homo habilis deep undergraound. Through that project they discovered mandible of earlier humans. Australopiths had larger jaws while habilis had relatively smaller one. But the one they found had jaws smaller than Australopiths but larger than the habilis, it was wider more curved than that of Habilis. They didn't know what it was. It seemed our whole assumptions were shattered. It was also interesting that they only found the skeletons of Hominids there not of single another creature. Do this suggest they were very good social creature with many living inside caves, but that might challenge much advanced another species Homo neanderthals. They studied the structure of their skull and found it more spherical, it was definitely of homo genus. After detail analysis of all the bones and structures it was named as Homo niladis, that linked between Australopithecus and habilis. They were more like becoming human from outside in. Their hands and legs, jaws were more of human like while the central portion of gut and brain more primitive. They were really massive in number inside the cave. Scientists now know that the late Australopiths and Early homos lived together, some of them may have been interbreeding. It is impossible to correlate all the discovered homos to say that they fall under the same single line to finally give us. There are numbers of lines. Nature is the best experimenter, its like huge braided river channel one crossing another making different tributaries.