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→The Origins of Man according to Evolutionary Biologists and Anthropologists
Humans evolved on the African savannah during the [[Pliocene]] and [[Pleistocene]] epochs. Bipedalism was one of the first traits that our ancestors developed. This occured around 4 million years ago. The recovered remains of "Lucy" (''Australopithecus afaranis'') indicate that the Australpithecines had developed bipedalism before developing into ''Homo'' contrary to popular depictions of cavemen as not being fully bipedal. About 2.5 million years ago at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary the first ''Homo'' appeared. ''Homo habilus'' was believed to be the first hominid to use stone tools but it was later discovered that Paranthropus (aka the "Robust Australpithicines) also used the same primitive stone technology known as Oldowan culture, as ''Homo habilus''.
Humans evolved on the African savannah during the [[Pliocene]] and [[Pleistocene]] epochs. Bipedalism was one of the first traits that our ancestors developed. This occured around 4 million years ago. The recovered remains of "Lucy" (''Australopithecus afaranis'') indicate that the Australpithecines had developed bipedalism before developing into ''Homo'' contrary to popular depictions of cavemen as not being fully bipedal. About 2.5 million years ago at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary the first ''Homo'' appeared. ''Homo habilus'' was believed to be the first hominid to use stone tools but it was later discovered that Paranthropus (aka the "Robust Australpithicines) also used the same primitive stone technology known as Oldowan culture, as ''Homo habilus''.
Later in the Pleistocene, man took on a more modern appearance. ''Homo erectus'' was close to the same size as a modern human and had a brain capacity of 70-80% that of modern humans. Fully modern humans did not appear until around 130,000 years ago and then migrated out of Africa and replacing all over human populations throughout the world. Two other human species, ''Homo florensis'' and ''Homo neanderthalensis'' were contemporaries of modern man but both species are now extinct, possibly because of us.
==The origins of Man according to non-Abrahamic religions==
==The origins of Man according to non-Abrahamic religions==