Early Humans

Human civilization is something that I remember learning about in both grammar school and high school, but I can't remember these lessons really sticking out in my head and grabbing my attention. After doing some research, ( https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from ) stated that the earliest human species were the homo sapiens, who walked the earth about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. I would say this is probably very consistent with what I had learned in prior schooling. One thing that I definitely did not recall, was that just 50,000 years ago, the homo sapiens developed the capacity for a language. I find this pretty astonishing. It is so intriguing to learn about how the earliest civilization was able to something like create a base language. Events like this affect us to this very day and I find those events truly fascinating. 

According to ( https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australopithecus ) Australopithecus was not exactly a human species. Rather Australopithecus, is an extinct primate species, which very closely relate to the human species. Some people even think the Australopithecus species were related to the human species. 

According to ( http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-erectus ) the homo erectus species is actually the oldest human species to modern human like bodies. The homo erectus species had elongated legs and shorter arms. This article stated their bodies even adapted due to things like not climbing trees and they were able to walk and possibly run long distances.

It seems that the homo erectus species spanned across Africa and Asia. According to the same website I used above, the homo eretcus species lived about 110,000 to 2,000,000 years ago.

It seems that the homo sapien species was actually only consolidated to Africa, and they later on traveled and now live worldwide. According to the webstie, homo sapiens roamed the earth starting about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and they are still present to this very day.

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