206 bones Human Body is composed of around 270 bones at birth – this total decreases to around 206 bones by adulthood after some bones get fused together. The bone mass in the skeleton reaches maximum density around age 21…
According to genetic and fossil evidence, older versions of Homo sapiens only evolved in Africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa 90,000 years ago and replacing earlier human popu…
Homo erectus had already spread around one million years ago throughout Africa and non - Arctic Eurasia before Homo sapiens. Fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, about 300,000 years old, are the oldest known evidence for…
"Fire was first controlled by humans anywhere from about 230,000 years ago to 1.4 or 1.5 million years ago, depending on which evidence you accept as definitive". Evidence for the use of fire by Homo erectus begin…
Lucy (Australopithecus) Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assem…
Dark skin. All modern humans share a common ancestor who lived around 200,000 years ago in Africa. Comparisons between known skin pigmentation genes in chimpanzees and modern Africans show that dark skin evolved along with …
A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness, or self - consciousness, and is part of a cultured form of social relationships such as kinship, property ownership, or…
In southwestern Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola, the research also located a possible source of modern human migration. For archeologist Richard Leakey, the fossil evidence was insufficient to reso…
Any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens. A person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species. Human nature is a bundle of fundamental c…