What is the Genus/species of the first Hominins called?

Question

its not australopithecus is it?

Answer 1

Are you thinking Homo Sapiens?  Homo Erectus preceded Austrolopithicus which has a doubtful history as it included the farce Piltdown Man, later exposed as wishful thinking and the application of facts distorted to "fit the theory" rather than facts to reveal the truth.

Answer 2

The earliest possible homonin species that has been discovered is called Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

"This species was named in July 2002 from fossils discovered in Chad in Central Africa (Brunet et al. 2002, Wood 2002). It is the oldest known hominid or near-hominid species, dated at between 6 and 7 million years old. This species is known from a nearly complete cranium nicknamed Toumai, and a number of fragmentary lower jaws and teeth. The skull has a very small brain size of approximately 350 cc. It is not known whether it was bipedal. S. tchadensis has many primitive apelike features, such as the small brainsize, along with others, such as the brow ridges and small canine teeth, which are characteristic of later hominids. This mixture, along with the fact that it comes from around the time when the hominids are thought to have diverged from chimpanzees, suggests it is close to the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees."

Answer 3

Hominini is the tribe of Homininae that only includes humans (Homo), chimpanzees (Pan), and their extinct ancestors. Members of the tribe are called hominins (cf. Hominidae, "hominids").

The creation of this taxon is the result of the current idea that the least similar species of a trichotomy should be separated from the other two. Through DNA comparison, scientists believe the Pan/Homo divergence was completed between 5.4 to 6.3 million years ago, after an unusual process of speciation that ranged over four million years.[1] It is interesting to note that no fossil species on the Pan side of the split have been determined; all of the extinct genera listed to the right are ancestral to Homo, or are offshoots of such. However, both Orrorin and Sahelanthropus existed around the time of the split, and so may be ancestral to both humans and chimpanzees.

In the proposal of Mann and Weiss (1996), the tribe Hominini includes Pan as well as Homo as separate subtribes. Homo (and, by inference, all bipedal apes) is by itself only in the subtribe Hominina, while Pan is in the Panina subtribe

Answer 4

This question has no definite answer. As of right now Sahelanthropus tschadensis (ca. 7 mya), Orrrorin tugenensis (ca. 6 mya) and Ardipithecus sp. (ca. 5-4 mya) are some of the earliest habitual bipeds. However, bipedalism in Sahelanthropus seems to be based on wishful thinking on part of the excavators and a rivalry between the them and the Orrorin excavators (who do have some convincing postcranial materials) may explain this. Please ignore the earlier comments by the user who claimed that H. erectus preceeds the Australopithecines. This is incorrect. Moreover, anyone mentioning Piltdown man as a critique of modern Evolutionary Theory has either no background at all or subscribes to creationist notions.

Source: BSc degree in Evolutionary Anthropology

Answer 5

Are you thinking of Adam and Eve?

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05654a.h...