Homo Erectus Homo Sapiens

Features Homo Habilis Java Man Peking Man Heidelberg Neanderthal Cro-Magnon Modern Man
(Handyman)

Cranial 650-800 cc 900 cc 1050 cc 1050 cc 1400 cc 1650 cc 1450 cc

Capacity

Jaw Prognathous Prognathous Prognathous Prognathous Orthognathic Orthognathic Orthognathic

Chin Absent Absent Absent Absent Present Present Present

Origin 2 million years 1.5 million 1.5 million 1.5 million 1,00,000-40,000 years 50,000-10,000 years 75,000-10,000
ago years ago years ago years ago ago ago years ago

Special ➔ 1st tool ➔ 1st fire users. ➔ Burial Ceremony ➔ 1st cave ➔ 1st start
Features makers (for ➔ Cannibalism ➔ Immortality of paintings agriculture
protection) soul ➔ Domestication
➔ Vegetarian ➔ Speech centre starts
developed ➔ Omnivorous
➔ They covered
their body by the
use of animal
skin/leaves.