Human evolution
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Homo sapiens is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which includes all the great apes. Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterit
Notharctus tenebrosus, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Reconstructed tailless Proconsul skeleton
Genetic data suggest that chimpanzees and humans may have diverged from a common ancestor between 9 and 7 million years ago.
Chimpanzee nest. Later hominins may have developed niche creating shelter-building traditions from such earlier nest-building practices.
Homo
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Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus, encompassing a single extant species, Homo sapiens, along with a number of extinct species classified as either ancestral or
Human evolution
…mya; Australopithecine (including the extinct biped ancestors of humans) separated from the Pan genus (containing chimpanzees and bonobos) 4–7 mya. The Homo genus is evidenced by the appearance of H. habilis over 2 mya, while anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago. The…
Reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, Natural History Museum, Vienna
Reconstruction of H. ergaster, American Museum of Natural History
Homo heidelbergensis may have evolved from H. ergaster, possibly following an intense population bottleneck 800,000 to 900,000 years ago.
Teilhardina DB15