An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens | Smithsonian
网页2021年2月2日 · The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a single step—or more accurately—with the ability to walk on two legs. One of our earliest-known ancestors, Sahelanthropus,...
Origins of modern human ancestry - Nature
网页2021年2月10日 · A Review describes the three key phases that define the origins of modern human ancestry, and highlights the importance of analysing both palaeoanthropological and genomic records to further...
Homo sapiens - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
网页2024年1月3日 · Modern humans evolved a unique combination of physical and behavioral characteristics, many of which other early human species also possessed, though not to the same degree. The complex brains of modern humans enabled them to interact with each other and with their surroundings in new and different ways.
Human evolution | History, Stages, Timeline, Tree, Chart, & Facts
网页2024年9月12日 · Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. The only extant members of the human tribe, Hominini, belong to the species Homo sapiens. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and their ancestors remains the subject of debate.
Homo sapiens | Meaning, Characteristics, & Evolution
网页2024年9月10日 · Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only member of the genus Homo that is not extinct. The name ‘Homo sapiens’ was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus. The earliest fossils of the species date to about 315 thousand years ago.
On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives | Science
网页2017年12月8日 · An increasingly robust record from Late Pleistocene Asian paleoanthropology is helping to build and establish new views about the origin and dispersal of modern humans. Map of sites with ages and postulated early and later pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene.
Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more ... - Nature
网页2023年5月18日 · The widely held idea that modern-day humans originated from a single region of Africa is being challenged. Models using a vast amount of genomic data suggest that humans arose from multiple...
The past, present and future of human evolution
网页2018年2月14日 · This is the theory that modern humans originated in many places simultaneously, in contrast to the ‘out of Africa’ model that posits a single origin for our species.
Human Evolution Evidence | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins ...
网页2024年7月9日 · Scientists have discovered a wealth of evidence concerning human evolution, and this evidence comes in many forms. Thousands of human fossils enable researchers and students to study the changes that occurred in brain and body size, locomotion, diet, and other aspects regarding the way of life of early human species over the past 6 million years.
How did Homo sapiens evolve? | Science - AAAS
网页2018年6月22日 · In 1987, a study using mitochondrial DNA from living humans indicated a recent and exclusively African origin for modern humans. In the following year, one of us coauthored a review of the fossil and genetic data, expanding on that discovery and supporting a recent African origin (RAO) for our species ( 2 ).