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    The human race has been progressing through evolutionary phases for several millions of years in order for our ancestors to adapt to their flourishing world. Our world grows at an exponential rate in a rapidly changing environment, a concept that may be difficult to conceptualize. Humans are on the verge of entering yet another evolutionary transition: the transhuman era. With new emerging technologies and environmental changes, mankind will continue to evolve physically aided with the newfound ability

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    Early Human Evolution

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    Evolution is the idea that species change over time and have a common ancestor. Which means that other species can evolve from the same animal or plant over a long period of time. Anthropology is the study of humankind and some of the different aspects to see how we evolved. The physical or biological anthropology is the evolution of humans their variability, and adaptations to the environment. Physical anthropologist can examine or investigate evolution through our genetic makeup. Anthropologist

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    The evolution of the human body can be observed from studying the intermediates found in ancestral organisms. Shubin proposes that every attribute that makes us human can be traced back to a time that showcases its importance for survival. Every single trait in the human body has been selected for through multiple mechanisms of evolution, natural selection being one of them. This theory is intriguing because not long ago it was unheard of to relate humans to fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and

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    The Future of Human Evolution Alexander R. Prof. Kohn Darwinism and Evolution 12-6-96 Evolution, the science of how populations of living organisms change over time in response to their environment, is the central unifying theme in biology today. Evolution was first explored in its semi-modern form in Charles Darwin 's 1859 book, Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. In this book, Darwin laid out a strong argument for evolution. He postulated that all species have a common ancestor

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    Evolution; not only something A little known scientist with name of Charles Darwin created to get famous. From the evolution of humans to how humans evolved is a long process, millions of years to be more precise. Our evolving includes many things many people probably don't consider to be evolution of humans. For instance, how we learned to live in harsh or un-habitable environments and made them livable, to making tools with stone and sticks from there surroundings. During the Paleolithic

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    Man is a creation of evolution. Therefore, human evolution is closely related to the origin of life and its development on the earth. It is normal to speak of evolution ‘from amoeba to Man’, as if the amoeba is the simplest form of life. But, there are several organisms more primitives than amoeba, say for example viruses. The evolution from a self-replicating organic molecule to a protozoan, like amoeba, is the most complex step in evolution, which might have consumed the same extent of time from

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    Initial ideas of human origins are reflected in the ancient mythologies. Later on, religious versions of human origins appeared. One of the most popular religious theory is creationism. According to it God had created men and everything else in the world. There are two types of creationism, young earth creationism and old earth creationism . Ancient philosophy first proposed ideas of the natural origins of men. Most of its ideas were speculative. It was the product of the ancient philosophers` imagination

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    information website is primarily focused on the evolution of the human body. The web source provides various selections to choose from, including: the human evolution summary, timeline, hall of skulls, and their perspectives. Likewise, the human evolution page describes the fossil hominids and their origins. The author recapitulates the hominid family, which consists of Homo, Australopithecus, and Ardipithecus. Correspondingly, the human evolution timeline page includes six distinct topics that follow

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    Introduction The human species has depended on a material culture for millions of years. Without it, humans would not be able to survive. Many people believe that because we have so many technological advancements and that humans can build or make anything necessary for their survival. Even with the current technology and other advancements, research has proven that humans are still evolving. Much of the evolution that is happening today has to do with the human genome and adapting to current issues

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    What is Human Evolution?

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    Human Evolution What is human evolution? Human evolution refers to a process in which human beings developed both physically and emotionally throughout centuries, evolution is mainly influenced by environmental factors, and sometimes people’s diet would also interrupt the way human beings evolve. Normally, human evolves for survivals, in order to get used to the climate, it is necessary for human beings to advance. Throughout millions of years, human beings have developed from the earliest hominids

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