HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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Africa, 4.5 million
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Asia, 2.5 million
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Europe, 4.2 million
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Africa, 2.5 million
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Europe, 4.5 million
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our species, Homo sapiens, has now spread to all parts of the world but it’s generally believed that we originated in Africa by about 200, 000 years ago.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man, ‘’ who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -The extinct ancient human Homo erectus is a species of firsts. It was the first of our relatives to have human-like body proportions, with shorter arms and longer legs relative to its torso. It was also the first known hominin to migrate out of Africa, and possibly the first to cook food.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated to 3.4 to 3.6 million years ago, far older than previously thought. The new date overturns the long-held concept that South African Australopithecus is a younger offshoot of East African Australopithecus afarensis.