Human evolution

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Human evolution or paleoanthropology is a theory within evolution which posits that mankind evolved from more primitive species over the course of 40 million years, with the most dramatic changes occuring during the last 2 million years. An absence of intermediary fossils, no plausible pathway for the development of the brain, and countless other disproofs to the theory has rendered human evolution more of a philosophy of a belief system rather than a valid scientific concept.


Claimed chain of early humans/hominids according to evolutionary science
Image Species Details Claimed Dates
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Ardipithecus ramidus Earliest claimed fossil hominid. 4.4 mya
- Australopithecus anamensis Found in Allia Bay in Kenya, and named in 1995. 4.2 - 3.9 mya
- Australopithecus afarensis - 3.5 - 2.9 mya
- Homo habilis Called handy man due to tools found near his remains 2.4 - 1.5 mya
- Homo erectus - 1.8 mya - 300,000 years ago
- Homo sapiens (archaic) - 500,000 - 200,000 years ago
- Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - 230,000 - 30,000 years ago
- Homo sapiens (modern) - 120,000 years ago - present

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