Upon completing this chapter, the student should be able to:

1. Discuss the hominins (archaic humans) who lived between about 500,000 and 30,000 years ago.
2. Describe how the archaic humans were similar to and different from us.
3. Explain when and where anatomically modern humans appear.
4. Explain when and how modern human behavior appears.
5. Discuss the different models proposed for the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens from earlier forms of Homo.