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Evolution

The earliest documentations ever of human beings, ‘Homo habilis’ are supposedly 2.3 million years ago. Their brains are said to be about the same as a chimpanzee’s which is why people could have possibly thought we derived from the chimpanzee species. Over the span of the next million years a process of encephelization began, and with the evolvement into the ‘homo erectus’ in the fossil record our cranial capacity was said to have doubled! As the years continue to pass, us as humans continued to evolve and become more intelligent which also lead to the world around us becoming more and more advanced as well.



Although Evolution was discussed long before the arrival of Mr. Charles Darwin, he is a man who is known very well for improving our knowledge on the subject. The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent became clear after the publication of Charles’ book, ‘The Origin Of Species’ in 1859. In this book, he argued for the idea of the evolution of new species from earlier ones.



Anthropologists in the 1980’s were divided regarding some details of reproductive barriers and migratory dispersals of the ‘Homo’ genus. Studies have shown that genus ‘Homo’ had migrated out of Africa at least 3 times. Which is why more of the genus had began to disperse throughout the entire planet and not just in Africa.

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