• Neanderthal man is in the middle, Cro-magnon man is on the right and Pithecanthropus is on the left.
• The Cro-magnon man is considered a modern man and compared to Neanderthal man it had a high forehead and a well-defined chin.
• Cro-magnon man live in the last ice age in Europe.
• The Pithecantharopus on the left isin the species Homo erectus and is also called the Java man because it fossils are found on the island of Java.

Cro-Magnon lived from 40,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago. Cro-Magnon lived in Africa and traveled to Europe, Asia, and Australia. Later they also lived in North and South America. Their fossils were found in the same places they lived. Cro Magnon looked like modern humans. They were tall like modern humans with no brow ridges, a thinner and more rounded skull, a higher forehead, and a slightly projecting chin. The average brain size was about 1,350 milliliters. Their bodies were like a modern human. For breakfast they caught fish. For lunch they ate mammoth, ducks and other birds, and for dinner they ate plants, nuts, shellfish, fruits, and berries. They caught , picked, and hunted for their food. They tied antler points with the barbs pointing backwards to wound animals.



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Homo sapiens in general appeared about 250,000 years ago. At this time humans had become advanced enough so they could be designated as a new species. However these early Homo sapiens were not anatomically like modern humans.

Homo sapiens sapiens

The modern day human is a subspecies of Homo sapiens who appeared approximately 40,000 years ago in the middle of the last ice age. Cro-Magnon man who is one of the best known early populations who left its remains in quite a few late stone age sites in Europe. When concerned with hunting, Cro-Magnon man was an advanced hunter who used the bow and arrow to hunt for food. He also developed a culture which