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Neanderthal

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Selam Kubrom AP World Chapter 1 African Genesis In 1856, Germans discovered bones of a creature with a human body but with the face of an ape (Neanderthals) 3 years later, Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species that ?the time frame for all biological life was far longer than most persons had supposed.? Natural Selection: The biological process by which variations that enhance a populations ability to survive in a particular environment become dominant in a species over very long periods and lead to evolution of a new species. Africa was thought of the origin of all humans because of the large populations of apes even though there was no evidence.

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Chapter 1 section 1 Overview African Genesis  1856: In Neander Valley (present day Germany) workmen discovered fossilized human remains resembling apes. -Neanderthals are known to have been the human common 40,000 years ago  Darwin proposed that biological life had a longer time frame than most believed-said that diversity came about by natural selection  Fossils found in Asia (Java man and Peking man) suggest humans first came from Asia, but other fossils, such as Raymond Dart’s find in 1924, prove that Africa was the first region to he inhabited by man.  Earliest transitional creatures found in Africa, but later human species had wider global distribution. Human Evolution  Biologists classify humans and australopithecines as members of a primate family called homids.
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