Human Evolution: How Humans Have Evolved

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Human species or in scientific terms know as, Homo Sapiens has evolved drastically in the last couple of billion years. Human evolution all started from our great ancestors, the chimpanzees. Human evolution started all in the continent of Africa. Due to global changes, evolution changed over time. Thus leading to the evolution of mankind. But man didn't just evolve from chimpanzees. There were a lot of scientific processes and different events that led up to final evolution of mankind. But what does it mean humans evolved from chimpanzees? Why is the human evolution such a small speck in the evolution graph of the evolution of the whole earth? These questions that have been asked frequently by curious people has led scientists to dig deeper into this topic. The answers to how humans evolved has led to some great discoveries.
According to scientists, chimpanzees are our great ancestors. Their way of life at first was a slight different than ours. When humans today walk on two feet, chimpanzees back at the time walked on 4 legs. Chimpanzees did their regular routine of finding food when they need it, finding shelter when needed. All of that changed when a natural disaster occurred on the face of the earth. Before the disaster, chimpanzees had nothing to fear. Life looked normal. Once the disaster hit, things took a turn for the worse. All the food that was available to chimpanzees in the reach of their hands were gone. Food was scarce on the ground. After a couple of hundreds of years, food and the basic necessities for living were at a much more higher reach of the chimpanzees. This meant that instead of chimpanzees walking on four legs, they had to walk on two. The other two body parts they used as legs would soon be turned into...

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... originated from one ancestor, the chimpanzee. Not only did we evolve physically, but we also evolved culturally. The early behaviors of chimpanzees evolved to the behaviors shown by humans today. Human evolution has shaped our current society. It is still currently changing our society and humans are still continuing to evolve more and more. Scientists are still researching more and finding more important fossils which show us that much more of our ancestors, who are chimpanzees.

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