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The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period.
Human Brain Evolution: The Influence of Freshwater and Marine Food Resources. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-60987-3. Hardy A (17 March 1960). "Was Man More Aquatic in the Past?". New Scientist. 7 (174): 642– 45. [permanent dead link ] Langdon JH (October 1997). "Umbrella hypotheses and parsimony in human evolution: a critique of the Aquatic Ape ...
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of ... Hominin timeline ... artifacts such as fish hooks, buttons ...
Evolution of Homo antecessor. The last members of Paranthropus die out. 1 Ma First coyotes. 810 ka First wolves: 600 ka Evolution of Homo heidelbergensis. 400 ka First polar bears. 350 ka Evolution of Neanderthals. 300 ka Gigantopithecus, a giant relative of the orangutan from Asia dies out. 250 ka Anatomically modern humans appear in Africa.
In 1871, Darwin published The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, which contained his views on human evolution. Darwin argued that the differences between the human mind and the minds of the higher animals were a matter of degree rather than of kind.
Evolution of humans – Evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of anatomically modern humans Evolution of human intelligence; Human evolutionary genetics – Study of differences between human genomes; Sexual selection in human evolution – Evolutionary effects of sexual selection on humans; Timeline of human evolution; Evolution of ...
The evolution of fishes took place over a timeline which spans the Cambrian to the Cenozoic, including during that time in particular the Devonian, which has been dubbed the "age of fishes" for the many changes during that period. The Late Devonian extinctions played a crucial role in shaping the evolution of fish, or vertebrates in general. [1]
Timeline of evolution; Human evolution. Recent human evolution; Phylogeny; ... The indirect route of this nerve is the result of evolution of mammals from fish, which ...