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Ardipithecus kadabba
Hominin fossil
Ardipithecus ramidus
Extinct hominin from Early Pliocene Ethiopia
Australopithecine
Extinct subtribe of the Hominini tribe, and members of the human clade
Australopithecus
Genus of hominin ancestral to modern humans
Australopithecus afarensis
Extinct hominid from the Pliocene of East Africa
Australopithecus africanus
Extinct hominid from South Africa
Australopithecus anamensis
Extinct hominin from Pliocene east Africa
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Extinct species of hominin from 3.5 mya
Australopithecus deyiremeda
Proposed extinct species of hominin of Ethiopia from 3.5 to 3.3 mya
Australopithecus garhi
Extinct hominid from the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago
Australopithecus sediba
Two-million-year-old hominin from the Cradle of Humankind
Ceprano Man
A prehistoric human skull cap from Italy.
Cro-Magnon
Earliest anatomically modern humans in Europe
Denisovan
Asian archaic human
Dmanisi hominins
Hominid species or subspecies discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia
Graecopithecus
Extinct hominin from Miocene Greece
Herto Man
Number of early modern human fossils found in Herto Bouri, Ethiopia
Hominini
Tribe of mammals
Homo
Extinct relatives of modern humans
Homo antecessor
Archaic human species from 1 million years ago
Homo erectus
Extinct species of archaic human
Homo ergaster
Extinct species or subspecies of archaic human
Homo floresiensis
Archaic human from Flores, Indonesia
Homo gautengensis
Name proposed for an extinct species of hominin from South Africa
Homo habilis
Archaic human species from 2.1 to 1.5 mya
Homo heidelbergensis
Extinct species of the genus Homo
Homo longi
Archaic human from China, 146,000 BP
Homo luzonensis
Archaic human from Luzon, Philippines
Homo naledi
Small-brained South African archaic human
Homo rhodesiensis
Species of mammal (fossil)
Homo rudolfensis
Extinct hominin from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa
Human evolution
Evolutionary process leading to anatomically modern humans
Java Man
Homo erectus fossil discovered on the island of Java in 1891
Kenyanthropus
Oldest known tool-making hominin
Lantian Man
Subspecies of the genus Homo (fossil)
Lucy (Australopithecus)
3.2 million year old hominin from Hadar
Manot 1
Hominin fossil
Missing link (human evolution)
Non-scientific term for a transitional fossil
Nanjing Man
Subspecies of homo erectus
Neanderthal
Extinct Eurasian species or subspecies of archaic humans
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Swedish anti-discrimination agency
Orrorin
Postulated early hominin discovered in Kenya
Paranthropus
Contested extinct genus of hominins
Paranthropus aethiopicus
Extinct species of hominin of East Africa
Paranthropus boisei
Extinct species of hominin of East Africa
Paranthropus robustus
Extinct species of hominin of South Africa
Peking Man
Subspecies of the genus Homo (fossil)
Penghu 1
Hominin fossil
Red Deer Cave people
Archaic humans from 12,500 BCE in southwest China
Sahelanthropus
Extinct hominid from Miocene Africa
Solo Man
Extinct subspecies of Homo erectus
Taung Child
Hominin fossil
Tautavel Man
Homo erectus fossil
Yuanmou Man
Subspecies of the genus Homo (fossil)