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Submitted By-Mahashweta Chakraborty Class - XII S1, Roll-15 BGKV

Homo habilis evolved around 2.3 million years ago and were the earliest species to use stone tools. Over the next million years, cranial capacity doubled to 850 cm3 with Homo erectus. Homo erectus and Homo ergaster were the first hominins to leave Africa between 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago and used fire and complex tools. Modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis or Homo antecessor and migrated out of Africa 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, replacing local hominin populations. Anatomically modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago in the Middle Paleolithic.

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Submitted By-Mahashweta Chakraborty Class - XII S1, Roll-15 BGKV

Homo habilis evolved around 2.3 million years ago and were the earliest species to use stone tools. Over the next million years, cranial capacity doubled to 850 cm3 with Homo erectus. Homo erectus and Homo ergaster were the first hominins to leave Africa between 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago and used fire and complex tools. Modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis or Homo antecessor and migrated out of Africa 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, replacing local hominin populations. Anatomically modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago in the Middle Paleolithic.

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The Evolution Of Man Submitted byMahashweta Chakraborty Class- XII S1, Roll-15 BGKV INTRODUCTION Human evolution is the

evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. While it began with the last common ancestor of all life, the topic usually covers only the evolutionary history of primates, in particular the genus Homo, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of hominids (or "great apes"). The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical, primatology, archaeology, linguistics, embryology and genetics. The earliest documented members of the genus Homo are Homo habilis which evolved around 2.3 million years ago; the earliest species for which there is positive evidence of use of stone tools. The brains of these early hominins were about the same size as that of a chimpanzee. During the next million years a process of encephalization began, and with the arrival of Homo erectus in the fossil record, cranial capacity had doubled to 850 cm3.[4] Homo erectus and Homo ergaster were the first of the hominina to leave Africa, and these species spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe between1.3 to 1.8 million years ago. It is believed that these species were the first to use fire and complex tools. According to the Recent African Ancestry theory, modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis or Homo antecessor and migrated out of the continent some 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, replacing local populations of Homo erectus, Homo denisova, Homo floresiensis and Homo neanderthalensis. Archaic Homo sapiens, the forerunner of anatomically modern humans, evolved between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago.[10][11] Recent DNA evidence

suggests that several haplotypes of Neanderthal origin are present among all non-African populations, and Neanderthals and other hominids, such as Denisova hominin may have contributed up to 6% of their genome to present-day humans. Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago. The transition to behavioral modernity with the development of symbolic culture, language, and specialized litchi technology happened around 50,000 years ago according to many anthropologists although some suggest a gradual change in behavior over a longer time span.

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