1. What is a hominid? A hominin? What is the difference? 2. How do apes and humans differ? Be able to name several characteristics and explain them. Why is this important? 3. Who was “Piltdown Man?” Why is he important? 4. Where are the first hominids from? What is significant about this area of the Earth? Why is it so good for fossils to be found here? 5. Be able to discuss Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, the Ardipithecus sp., What is important about these specimens? 6. Why is it difficult to identify the early ancestors of humans as human?