2007-01-20 09:06:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
There are several "missing link" species, if that's what you're asking (this is the "hominid lineage"). Several pre-australopithicene transitional fossils exist, but for the most part you're looking at the genus Australopithecus and Homo.
Some of the key transitional species are Australopithecus Africanus and Aust. Afarensis (both are monkey-looking hominids who walked upright), and then you have the major Homo species such as Homo habilis (handyman), homo erectus (human diaspora), Homo neadratalensis, and us, Homo sapiens.
2007-01-22 03:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by rawley_iu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by "major". Do you mean, "dominant"? Welp, dinosaurs were not all one species - there were hundreds (jeez, probably thousands) of dinosaur species, and not all of them were all that successful. But, as a group, they were dominant for a long, long time.
Dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago, Homo sapiens appeared around 150,000 years ago. That leaves about 64,850,000 years to fill in . . . Since the dinosaurs, mammals of one kind or another have probably been the "dominant" form of life. Certainly the dominant species of mammal today is humans.
You might want to ask this question in the science and mathematics forum, since this forum specializes in social sciences.
2007-01-20 17:21:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
None.See the Ica stones.
http://genesismission.4t.com/dinosaurs/Ica_stones.html
2007-01-20 21:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Blah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only about a million different species of mammal.
2007-01-20 17:12:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ica stones are frauds, that have been debunked dozens of times already. They are modern.
2007-01-21 02:18:29 · answer #5 · answered by dognhorsemom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋