
The hominides are the group that includes modern humans, our immediate ancestors, and other extinct relatives and the scientists use fossils to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominins. The channel American Museum of Natural History offers you some informations about what is already known. Today, our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but the extinct hominins species are even closer. Where and when did they live? What can we learn about their lives? Why did they go extinct? Scientists look to fossils for clues.
The chapters from the video are the following:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:04 - First known hominin
- 01:29 - Bipedalism
- 02:32 - In-line toes, Australopithecus
- 03:27 - Tool use
- 04:06 - Migration out of Africa
- 04:44 - Cooking and fire
- 05:07 - Homo sapiens
- 05:38 - Family tree of human ancestors