GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
On what continent did prehistoric humans originate?
A
Africa
B
Asia
C
North America
D
Europe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It suggested that modern humans originated in Africa within the last 200, 000 years from a single group of ancestors. Modern humans continued to evolve in Africa and had spread to the Middle East by 100, 000 years ago and possibly as early as 160, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -Southern Africa has long been considered to be one of the regions in which anatomically modern humans (AMHs) originated. Home to contemporary populations who represent the earliest human lineages, evolutionary time estimates have largely been based on mitochondrial DNA (mitogenomes)1, 6.

Detailed explanation-3: -the hominin group originated in Africa – an idea most anthropologists believe today. But he also wrote that the group may have arisen in Europe because, at that time, fossils of large apes had already been uncovered there. “Darwin was open-minded, ‘’ says David Begun at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent.

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