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http://www.edugraphics.net/0-loe2/images/Human_Evolution-4x6-072dpi.jpg The story of human evolution

Have you ever wondered where we came from? What were our origins? How are we different from other animals? You may know about evolution and it plays a big role in where humans came from. First to understand human evolution we need to understand what evolution is. Evolution is the process when different environments and adaptations make animals different so they are different species. You may know a thing or two about cavemen. Many things that you may know aren’t true. One is that our ancestors never lived with dinosaurs. Dinosaurs died off way before the first primates came along. The first hominids to appear looked like a mix between the major primates. It was the first in the primate branch of human evolution. He was one of our first ancestors. It could climb like monkeys, but stand up on two legs and had a superior intellect like us. Get ready for this name, they are called the australopithecines. They were some of the first animals to experiment in using tools and making tight social groups. You can see how they are a lot like a prototype of humans. Like many animals their stories began in Africa. The primates began their lives in Africa. Scientists do not know all the members of the hominid family. The hominid family is our family which includes primates which we are. Australopithecus was the first in our family tree and we are the latest line in the family. The hominid family tree is very diverse; some look more like monkeys like Australopithecus and some look like us like Neanderthals which looked like us only more hairy and stocky.

//This is a picture of a family of australopithicines.// [|//http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52004002/semiapa.jpg////] By the time hominids //left Africa modern humans evolved, modern humans are what you me and all other people are. You may be wondering how did we leave Africa, and wind up in Europe Asia and North America. Well we just walked to most of our locations, but why did we leave our home land to colonize the world. Well there are many ideas scientists have thought of but the most credible one is just curiosity. Our ancestors wanted to explore their world and they did. They traveled throughout the eastern hemisphere and journeyed to America as well. Getting to America was the hardest journey for them though. There was a land bridge of ice from Russia to Alaska. That was one way to America but many scientists also believe they might have used early sailing technology to sail across the pass from Russia to Alaska. That is how we got around the world. On our travels through the world we would have seen all the famous ice age animals like the mammoth and saber tooth cats. We also in a brief period of time we would have seen our closest ancestor the Neanderthals. They were not as smart as us but much stronger. They were like the classic caveman you may think of.// Well this is how we humans have taken over the world.

this is a picture of a family of neanderthals

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/080502-neandertal-mouth_big.jpg this is an australopithicus skull which is in very good condition.