Human Evolution

Title: Human Evolution
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Human Evolution

Human evolution is the biological and cultural development of humans. A human is any member of the species Homo sapiens, meaning “wise man.” Since at least the Upper Paleolithic era, some 40,000 years ago, every human society has devised a creation myth to explain how humans came to be. Creation myths are based on cultural beliefs that have been adopted as a legitimate explanation by a society as to where we came from. The science of …showed first 75 words of 3139 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3139 total…Journey from Eden - The Peopling of Our World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. Gallagher, Richard B., Michael Murphy, and Luke O’Neill. “What Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?” Science 14 Jan. 1994: 181-183 Gibbons, Ann, “When It Comes to Evolution, Humans Are in the Slow Class.” Science 31 March. 1995: 1907-1908 “Human Evolution.” Microsoft Encarta. 1996 ed. [CD-ROM] Leakey, Richard. The Origin of Humankind. New York: Basic Books, 1994. Lemonick, Michael “New Thinking on Human Evolution” Time 14 March 1994: 81-87

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