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Discovery of Human Evolution
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On the Origin of Species
In 1859, Charles Darwin was a scientific book that he made that argued over the idea of human evolution. -
Man's Place in Nature
Man's Place in Nature was a book that was made by Thomas Henry Huxley.This book was saying the differences and similarities between humans and primates. -
The Descent of Man,and Selection in Relation to Sex
This book was a book made by Charles Darwin and it was made to tell the sexual selection from primates to humans. -
Discovery of Homo erectus
In 1891, a Dutch paleoanthropologist discovered a fossil from a primate called Homo erectus in Trinil, Java, -
Discovery of Australopithecus africanus
In 1925, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart found a fossil from along ago hominid called Australopithecus africanus. -
Discovery of Fossils In Africa
In Eastern Africa there was a lot of fossils found in the places like Olduvai gorge and Lake Turkana by the Leakey family. -
Sarich and Wilson Paper
In 1967, Vincent Sarich and Allan Wilson wrote a paper in book called Science which as about the estimation ofthe divergence time of humans and apes from about 5 million years ago. -
Discoveries in Eastern Africa
In Eastern Africa there was a lot of fossils found in the places like Olduvai gorge and Lake Turkana by the Leakey family. -
Discovery of Lucy
In the 1980s a palaeoanthropologist named Donald Johanson found the most complete fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis called "Lucy". -
Meave Leakey Huge Discovery
In 1994, a paleontologist named Meave Leakey discovered a fossil to a hominid called Australopithecus anamensis. -
Tim White's Discovery
In 1995 a paleoanthropologist called Tim White found a fossil from a hominid called Ardipithecus ramidus. -
Discovery of Orrorin tugenensis
In 2000, two paleoanthropologists named Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut discoved a fossil to a hominid called Orrorin tugenensis in the Tugen Hills of Kenya. -
Discovery of Sahelanthropus tchadensis
In 2001, there was a team lead by Michel Brunet that discovered the skull from a hominin called Sahelanthropus tchadensis which dated back to 7 million years ago and it was discovered in Chad,Africa.
