Earth and its Peoples Chapter 1 notes
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World History [1]
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Chapter 1 section 1 Overview
African Genesis
1856: In Neander Valley (present day Germany) workmen discovered fossilized human remains resembling apes.
-Neanderthals are known to have been the human common 40,000 years ago
Darwin proposed that biological life had a longer time frame than most believed-said that diversity came about by natural selection
Fossils found in Asia (Java man and Peking man) suggest humans first came from Asia, but other fossils, such as Raymond Dart’s find in 1924, prove that Africa was the first region to he inhabited by man.
Earliest transitional creatures found in Africa, but later human species had wider global distribution.
Human Evolution
Biologists classify humans and australopithecines as members of a primate family called homids.