Evolution of Humans

The Timeline of Human evolution

In the 8 million years since the earliest human ancestors diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids have lived on Earth. Fossils are often difficult to categorise from each other as, like all creatures, no two hominids were alike. Over millions of years most of the species evolved, and some became new species.

Humans evolved in Africa. We have the same ancestors as great apes, although we didn't actually evolve from them.

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