Hominins to Humans | UPSC Anthropology | Paper 1 | Unit 1.6
7 videos • 507 views • by Knowledge Hut Human Evolution history, covers the time from 7 million years ago to the time when humans started farming some 12000 years ago. Part 1 covers the genera Sahelanthropus, Orrorin, and Ardipithecus (Time: 7 MYA to 4.5 MYA)* Part 2 covers the genus Australopithecus and its 5 species (Time: 4.2 MYA to 1.9 MYA) Part 3 covers the genera Paranthropus and Kenyanthropus (Time: 3.5 MYA to 1 MYA) Part 4 covers the genus Homo and its 5 species (Time: 2.4 MYA to 0.11 MYA) Part 5 covers the species H neanderthalensis and H rudolfensis ( Time: 324 KYA to 35 KYA)* Part 6 covers the species Homo Sapiens (Time: 350 KYA to 12 KYA) * MYA means Million years ago and KYA means Thousand years ago.