HST 101 Lecture Notes - Main Source, Mother Goddess, Mudbrick
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In 1859 charles darwin published on the origin of species, in which he suggested that species evolve over long periods of time through the process of natural selection. However, the african origins of human beings were suggested by the discovery of australopithecus africanus in. 1924 and confirmed by the work of the leakeys in eastern africa beginning in. 1950: archaeological evidence and understanding of the evolution of other species has helped scientists to trace the evolution of human beings over a period of 4 million years. Human evolution: the australopithecines and modern humans are hominids, which are members of the primate family. They were replaced first by homo erectus (1. 8 million years ago) and then by homo sapiens (400,000 to 100,000 years ago): both homo erectus and homo sapiens migrated from africa to various parts of. Europe and asia, their migration facilitated by the low sea levels associated with the ice age.
