Wgu academy intro to bio Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Homo habilis - Shorter than modern. Large brains with large speech regions. They came from Australopithecines Homo floresiensis - coexisted with modern homo sapiens, but were much smaller in stature, most likely due to island dwarfing. Cro-Magnons - traveled from Africa to Western Europe around 40,000 years ago and may have been first hominids to have language Neandertals - larger brains than modern humans, larger muscles, shorter/thicker bones, massive brow ridges and wide, flat noses P...