Early species of Homo

species of archaic humans believed to be extinct in a pure form

Homo () is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the early homininian genus Australopithecus, encompassing a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (e.g. Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans, collectively called archaic humans. Homo, together with the genus Paranthropus, is probably most closely related to the species Australopithecus africanus within Australopithecus.'' The closest living relatives of Homo are of the hominin genus Pan (chimpanzees and

extinct species of the genus Homo

species of mammal (fossil)

extinct species of hominid

subspecies of the genus Homo (fossil)

Ape-like Hominid species.

extinct species of archaic humans (Homo)

extinct species of hominins marking the boundary between Australopiths and Homo erectus

species of mammal (fossil)

species of mammal

extinct species of human being

species of mammal

hominin cranium found in China and assigned to Denisovans

Denisovan fossil mandible (Taiwan)

remains of an extinct ape

species of archaic humans

equine fossil mistaken as an early human

thumb|Illustration of Peking Man Sinanthropus (from Sino-, "China", and anthro-, "man") is an archaic genus in the scientific classification system to which the early hominid fossils of Peking Man, Lantian Man, Nanjing Man, and Yuanmou Man were once assigned. All of them have now been reclassified as Homo erectus, and the genus Sinanthropus is disused. Beginning in the year 1928 to the year 1937, 14 fragmented skulls belonging to the hominids were found in various locations in China. Peking and Chou K’ou-tien are two notable places with fossils found. It has been noted by researchers that it