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//**Have you ever thought about where you have come from? We are walking this earth because of a process called evolution. Evolution is a prcess in which animals and living organisms become become better adapted to ther envirements. Sometimes this process leads to a new species. Have you ever wondered where we were first originated or what animals made us to what we are today? Humans originated in the continent of Africa. Humans are primates along with apes,lemurs and monkeys. Humans all have opposible thumbs, and binocular vision. Binocular vision is when an animal has two eyes on the front of its head and can see three dimensional .** **Scientists think that primates may have exsited with dinasours and were mouse like creatures that lived in trees and hunted at night. Humans did not exsist untill after dinosaurs died out. 45 million years ago primates with larger brains evolved. These wee the first primates that had similarities closest to apes and monkeys. Our first common ancestor is the homminid. The first Hominid fossils appeared 6 to 7 million years ago. The first hominid fossils apeard in africa so thats were they think human evolution began. Many early classified hominids are called Australopithecines. Austropithecines are were classified in the same group as apes but have many diferences. For example there brains were slightly larger than humans, some of them may have used stone toolsand they climbed trees and also used two legs. Hominids had human like jaws and teeth and lived on a vegitarien diet ** //                            // **. About 2.4 million years ago a new species of hominid romed the earth. They were very much like Australopithecines except they developed brain, rounder skulls and flatter faces. The new group of homminds was a member of the group HOMO which include modern humans. An early member of this new group was Homo Habids which lived about 2.4 million years ago. About 1.8 million years ago a group of new group came into play. It was called homo erectus apeared. This type of hominid could grow as tall as modern humans. As recently as 30,000 ears ago two types of hominids may hav e lived in the same areas at the same time. One of the most recent hominids is the netherlands. Netherlands lived in Europe and western Asia. They made fires and wore clothing. They cared for the sick and burried the dead with cultrual rituals. About 30,000 the netherlands disapeared and no one knew were they went.

Modern human are classified as HOMO sapiens. The homo sapien exsisted in Africa about 100,000 years ago. The group migrated between 40 thousand years ago and 100 thousand years ago. Compared to the netherland homo sapiens have flatter faces and rounder skulls. Of all known hominds homo sapiens are the only ones that still exsist .** //            http://web.mit.edu/ealba/www/hominidtimeline.jpg For a timeline see this site.http://www.ifungames.com/gameindex/evolution.htm evolution game