Mean weight of each side of the human female - Human hom*o sapiens (2024)

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What is the weight of hom*o sapiens? ›

The average height of a North American adult female is 162 centimetres (5 feet 4 inches), and the average weight is 62 kilograms (137 pounds). Human males are typically larger than females: the average height and weight of a North American adult male is 175 centimeters (5 feet 9 inches) and 78 kilograms (172 pounds).

hom*o sapiens Body size and shape

Modern humans now have an average height of about 160 centimetres in females and 175 centimetres in males.

hom*o sapiens sapiens are the subspecies coming from hom*o sapiens; they comprise modern humans only. The scientific name of humans is hom*o sapiens sapiens. hom*o sapiens sapiens is the definition of modern hom*o sapiens.

hom*o Sapiens: Etymology and Historical Usage

hom*o sapiens means ''intelligent man''. The genus hom*o means ''human'', while the species name sapiens is derived from sapient, meaning rational, thus ''rational human''. The term was coined by Carl Linnaeus, the ''father of modern taxonomy'', in the 1750s.

Average adult human weight varies by continent, from about 60 kg (130 lb) in Asia and Africa to about 80 kg (180 lb) in North America, with men on average weighing more than women.

According to Wikipedia, the heaviest on record is 635 kg. That's 1,400 pounds. That individual also holds the record for the greatest weight loss, 419 kg.

Early humans were 5 feet tall on average

Height and weight have not consistently increased together; early Neanderthals tended to be taller than those who came later, but their weight remained the same. Their short, stocky bodies gave them an advantage in colder climates.

hom*o floresiensis was very short compared to the average modern human, standing at about 1.05 metres tall. This is what earned hom*o floresiensis its nickname 'the hobbit', after a fictional group of short, human-like creatures created by author J R R Tolkien.

"Our ancestors had larger bodies than us, and needed larger brains to control and maintain those bodies," says Dr. Eiluned Pearce, a researcher in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford, and coauthor of a 2013 paper on Neanderthal brains published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The earliest documented representative of the genus hom*o is hom*o habilis, which evolved around 2.8 million years ago, and is arguably the earliest species for which there is positive evidence of the use of stone tools.

When did man first appear on Earth? ›

Hominins first appear by around 6 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago. Our evolutionary path takes us through the Pliocene, the Pleistocene, and finally into the Holocene, starting about 12,000 years ago. The Anthropocene would follow the Holocene.

Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern hom*o sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology – tools, artefacts, cave art – suggest that complex technology and cultures, “behavioural modernity”, evolved more recently: 50,000-65,000 years ago.

Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

Herto Man refers to human remains (hom*o sapiens) discovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto member of the Bouri Formation in the Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. The remains have been dated as between 154,000 and 160,000 years old.

According to the findings in the Royal Society Open Science journal, early humans ranged from the broad, gorilla-like paranthropus to the thinner australopithecus afarensis. The hominins from four million year ago weighed 25kg on average and stood just over 4ft tall.