Ape to Man

• charles darwin suggest that all living things came from earlier simpiler things including humans and published the origin of species 
• no one cared about the book at the time 
• humans could only have descended from apes 
• people were afraid of this notion because they feared being related to apes 
• johan karl 
• fuhlrott 
• eugene dubois searched for the missing link in southeast asia 
• homo erectus 
• moves to the island of java for his search 
• uses mathematics to find the missing link 
• he claims he has found the missing link pithcatherous erctus 
• 1.8 million - 200000 - homo erectus 
• similar to our own in shape and 2/3 the size of the brain 
• first to eat meat 
• they were scavengers
• for the first time body hair is leaving and not panting in the heat creating human speach 
• first to have broke bones and healing 
• first to discover fire 
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