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Homo sapiens • Becoming Human
From Lucy to Language, Simon & Schuster, 2006
The latest chapter of human evolution begins with the emergence of our species:
Homo sapiens. The anatomy of
Homo sapiens is unique among hominin specie...
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About • Becoming Human
About
For the past 23 years, BecomingHuman.org has helped to enlighten and educate thousands of teachers, students, and the community of life-long learners about the science of how human life develope...
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Timeline Events Archive • Becoming Human
Species Present
Homo heidelbergensis 800,000 to 125,000 Ya
Homo sapiens 300,000 Ya to Present
Homo neanderthalensis 200,000 to 28,000 Ya
Pleistocene
160,000 years ago
34 – Symbolic behavior: Mortuary ...
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Human Uniqueness • Becoming Human
Highlights
Cognition, culture, and cooperation explain the unusual features of our species and these features coevolved with our unusual life history and population structure.
Today people cooperate o...
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Geology and Dating • Becoming Human
Dating a fossil is very important, and without dates, it is difficult to understand the context
It is most common to date the sediments surrounding the fossil rather than directly date the fossil
Rela...
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Homo floresiensis • Becoming Human
Australopithecus, and a stone tool technology linked to those often associated with
H. sapiens. If the fossils assigned this species do not represent a population of pathological
H. sapiens, as some...