2020年3月5日 · Scientists still don’t know exactly when or how the first humans evolved, but they’ve identified a few of the oldest ones. One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,”...

2025年2月11日 · human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.

2021年2月2日 · The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a single step—or more accurately—with the ability to walk on two legs.

2024年7月9日 · Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a …

Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language, [2] as well as interbreeding with other hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), [3] indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. [4][5][6][7] The study of the origins of humans involves several scien...

2024年10月18日 · Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the biological and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a …

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got here and the key physical traits that make us human.

2024年1月3日 · By 164,000 years ago modern humans were collecting and cooking shellfish and by 90,000 years ago modern humans had begun making special fishing tools. Then, within just the past 12,000 years, our species, Homo sapiens, made the transition to producing food and changing our surroundings.

2015年9月12日 · 12 Theories of How We Became Human, and Why They’re All Wrong. Killers? Hippies? Toolmakers? Chefs? Scientists have trouble agreeing on the essence of humanity—and when and how we acquired it.

If correct, this suggests that a population of Homo sapiens might have made it to the continent more than 15,000 years before the ancestors of Indigenous Australians did. The first confirmed early modern humans in Australia are dated to around 42,000 years ago, based on Homo sapiens remains found at Lake Mungo.