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  2. Aquatic ape hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    [57] [58] Further, there is no evidence that humans ate fish in significant amounts earlier than tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. [59] Supporters argue that the avoidance of taphonomic bias is the problem, as most hominin fossils occur in lake-side environments, and the presence of fish remains is therefore not proof of fish ...

  3. Homo habilis - Wikipedia

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    Freshwater fish likely were also consumed, evidenced by the findings of fish remains at archaeological sites most likely associated with H. habilis. [55] It is typically thought that the diets of H. habilis and other early Homo had a greater proportion of meat than Australopithecus, and that this led to brain growth. The main hypotheses ...

  4. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    The last common ancestor between humans and other apes possibly had a similar method of locomotion. 12-8 Ma The clade currently represented by humans and the genus Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) splits from the ancestors of the gorillas between c. 12 to 8 Ma. [31] 8-6 Ma Sahelanthropus tchadensis

  5. Human evolution - Wikipedia

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    [112] [113] In September 2019, scientists reported the computerized determination, based on 260 CT scans, of a virtual skull shape of the last common human ancestor to modern humans (H. sapiens), representative of the earliest modern humans, and suggested that modern humans arose between 260,000 and 350,000 years ago through a merging of ...

  6. Human evolutionary genetics - Wikipedia

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    Biologists classify humans, along with only a few other species, as great apes (species in the family Hominidae).The living Hominidae include two distinct species of chimpanzee (the bonobo, Pan paniscus, and the chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes), two species of gorilla (the western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla, and the eastern gorilla, Gorilla graueri), and two species of orangutan (the Bornean ...

  7. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    Evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens from a common ancestor with chimpanzees is found in the number of chromosomes in humans as compared to all other members of Hominidae. All hominidae have 24 pairs of chromosomes, except humans, who have only 23 pairs. Human chromosome 2 is a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral chromosomes ...

  8. Homo - Wikipedia

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    Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

  9. Evolution of fish - Wikipedia

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    The first ancestors of fish, or animals that were probably closely related to fish, were Haikouichthys and Myllokunmingia. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] These two genera all appeared around 530 Mya . Unlike the other fauna that dominated the Cambrian, these groups had the basic vertebrate body plan : a notochord , rudimentary vertebrae, and a well-defined head ...