HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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mammals
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homonids
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Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest hominid with the most extensive evidence for bipedalism is the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Australopithecus afarensis lived 3.1 million years ago. The Australopithecus fossils show that they were committed bipeds, which means they always walked on two legs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya).
Detailed explanation-4: -The most commonly used recent definitions are: Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).
Detailed explanation-5: -Homo erectus, (Latin: “upright man”) extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled out.