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    HUMAN EVOLUTION!!!

Everyone always wonders where we come from. Why are we here? Who or what was on this planet before us?  People say that we evolved from monkeys and apes. We did not evolve from them. We are just related to them. We all evolved from a common ancestor. No one knows exactly what that ancestor was. All we know is that it was a primate. A primate is a certain type of group of mammals. The mammals are monkeys, apes, and lemurs. We are primates too.

      Australopithecines     Australopithecines are early hominids. A hominid is a primate that is separated from others by bipedalism. Bipedalism is when an animal walks upright on two feet instead of all fours.  Australopithecines were similar to monkeys.They had bigger brains than monkeys and walked on two feet. Fossils of them have been found in Africa.

Global hominids A new group of hominids appeared approximately 2.4 million years ago. They had some similar characteristics to australopithecines. Their brains were bigger and more advanced however. They were members of the group modern humans are in which is the homo.          <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Neanderthals are a hominid. Neanderthals were alive about 230,000 years ago. They lived in western Asia and Europe. They went extinct though. No one knows why.

Homo sapiens

All of us are Homo sapiens. The first Homo sapiens lived in Africa from   <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">  100,000 to 160,000 years ago. Between 40,000 and 100,000 years ago they migrated out of Africa.

BIBLIOGRAPHY <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; color: rgb(14, 11, 11); text-align: center"> Picture 1:     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">   <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; color: rgb(14, 11, 11); text-align: center">  [|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/EEB210/evolution.jpg] <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; color: rgb(14, 11, 11); text-align: center"> Picture 2: http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l144/Ferry_Lee18/chimpanzee.jpg     <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; color: rgb(14, 11, 11); text-align: center">  Picture 3: [|http://churchofcriticalthinking.org/images/missinglinkdebate.jpg]

sources Cells, Heredity, and Classification. Holt Science and Technology Series. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2007. p. 148-153. <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 202, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 141, 255); text-align: center">