Evolution Man, Or, How I Ate My Father

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By this time several other scientists, including Thomas Huxley and Ernst Haekel, had expanded Darwin’s theories to the human species. The shortening of the pelvis and smaller birth canal evolved as a requirement for bipedalism and had significant effects on the process of human birth, which is much more difficult in modern humans than in other primates. The next oldest stone tools are from Gona, Ethiopia, and are considered the beginning of the Oldowan technology.

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Precisely when early humans started to use tools is difficult to determine, because the more primitive these tools are (for example, sharp-edged stones) the more difficult it is to decide whether they are natural objects or human artifacts. With this book, and his insistence that each expression demanded a rational explanation, Darwin kick started a field which is now huge: evolutionary psychology.The authors argue that many of the basic human adaptations evolved in the ancient forest and woodland ecosystems of late Miocene and early Pliocene Africa.

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The Beagle carried with them three native Fuegians who FitzRoy had previously kidnapped and taken to England to ‘civilise’. The genetic revolution in studies of human evolution started when Vincent Sarich and Allan Wilson measured the strength of immunological cross-reactions of blood serum albumin between pairs of creatures, including humans and African apes (chimpanzees and gorillas). The earliest hominin, of presumably primitive bipedalism, is considered to be either Sahelanthropus [118] or Orrorin, both of which arose some 6 to 7million years ago.Main articles: Archaic humans, Early modern human, Archaic human admixture with modern humans, and Human §Evolution Reconstruction of early Homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco c. Based on archaeological and paleontological evidence, it has been possible to infer, to some extent, the ancient dietary practices [50] of various Homo species and to study the role of diet in physical and behavioral evolution within Homo.

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The use of tools has been interpreted as a sign of intelligence, and it has been theorized that tool use may have stimulated certain aspects of human evolution, especially the continued expansion of the human brain. The surviving tropical population of primates—which is seen most completely in the Upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo—gave rise to all extant primate species, including the lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and to the anthropoids, which are the Platyrrhines or New World monkeys, the Catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans and other hominids. Other similar basal primates were widespread in Eurasia and Africa during the tropical conditions of the Paleocene and Eocene. Humans also have thicker metacarpals with broader heads, allowing more precise grasping than the chimpanzee hand can perform. Much of the evidence for the first group's expansion would have been destroyed by the rising sea levels at the end of each glacial maximum.

Although selection pressure on some traits, such as resistance to smallpox, has decreased in the modern age, humans are still undergoing natural selection for many other traits.

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On the basis of a separation from the orangutan between 10 and 20million years ago, earlier studies of the molecular clock suggested that there were about 76 mutations per generation that were not inherited by human children from their parents; this evidence supported the divergence time between hominins and chimpanzees noted above.The multiregional hypothesis proposed that the genus Homo contained only a single interconnected population as it does today (not separate species), and that its evolution took place worldwide continuously over the last couple of million years. The earliest known catarrhine is Kamoyapithecus from the uppermost Oligocene at Eragaleit in the northern Great Rift Valley in Kenya, dated to 24million years ago. In fact the trend towards increased maternal care, female mate selection and self-domestication may have been stronger and more refined in Ar. As the human hand and arms adapted to the making of tools and were used less for climbing, the shoulder blades changed too. The brain of a modern human consumes, on average, about 13 watts (260 kilocalories per day), a fifth of the body's resting power consumption.