Living Organisms Species (mention at least 3)
Specie 1: ”handy” man (Homo Habilis) Specie 1: One of the earliest members of the genus
Humans
Specie 2: “upright man” (Homo Erectus)
Specie 3: the Neanderthal (Homo
Neanderthanlensis)
Specie 1: Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus)
Elephants
Specie 2: African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta
Africana)
Modifications (Structural Composition)
Homo, has a slightly larger brain case and smaller
face and teeth in older hominin species. But, it still
retains some ape-like features, including long arms
and moderately-prognathic face.
Specie 2: Homo Erectus are the oldest known early
humans to have possessed modern human-like body
proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter
arms compared to the size of the torso.
Specie 3: The defining features of their skulls include
the large middle part of the face, angled cheek bones,
and a huge nose for humidifying and warming cold,
dry air. Their bodies were shorter and stockier than
ours, another adaptation to living in cold
environments. But their brains were just as large as
ours and often larger - proportional to their brawnier
bodies.
Specie 1: They are smaller than African elephants
and have proportionally smaller ears, which they keep
in constant motion in order to cool themselves. They
also have a single 'finger' on the upper lip of their
trunks as opposed to African elephants, which have a
second one on the lower tip. Their skin ranges from
dark grey to brown, with patches of pink on the
forehead, the ears, the base of the trunk and the
chest.
Specie 2: The African bush elephant is the largest
land mammal in the world and the largest of the

Specie 3: Mammoth (Mammuthus)
References:
Homo habilis | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program (si.edu)
Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them | New Scientist
Homo erectus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program (si.edu)
Homo neanderthalensis | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
Asian elephants | WWF (panda.org)
three elephant species. Adults reach up to 24 feet in
length and 13 feet in height and weigh up to 11 tons.
As herbivores, they spend much of their days foraging
and eating grass, leaves, bark, fruit, and a variety of
foliage.
Specie 3: The woolly mammoth was also entirely
covered in a thick coat of hair (excluding the soles of
its feet). The underfur grew to about 5-15cm while the
longest straight hair grew to about a meter long. Even
its trunk was covered in hair. The longest hairs grew
on the tail and forelegs. The main function of the coat
was to maintain body heat, especially after drinking
water, since body heat was used to warm the water in
the stomach.