World History › Section A · Studying the past and early humans › Topic A.4
Early human evolution and migration
Everyone alive today belongs to one young species with a very old family. This topic follows the line from tree-climbing Australopithecus to globe-crossing Homo sapiens — and the evidence, from flaked stone to ancient DNA, that lets us tell that story at all.
In this topic
- How we know anything at all
- The deep line: Australopithecus to Homo
- Homo erectus, the durable traveller
- A branching, interbreeding family
- Worked example: two models of modern human origins
- The vanishing of the Neanderthals
- The spread of Homo sapiens
- The moving world: ice, coasts and reasons
- Worked example: cause and effect at an arrival
- Tools, fire, language, art
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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