SCIENCE8 - The History of Human Evolution
I’ve been on a science bent lately, talking about the Moon, the Sun, and the possibility of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life. Continuing with scientific subjects, this blog is the first of a two-part article about human evolution. Part 1 will cover what we know about the history of human evolution to the present. Part 2, in a separate blog, will discuss how humans might evolve in the future. My principal sources for this blog include “Human Evolution,” Britannica.com; “Human evolution,” Wikipedia; “Primate Classification and Evolution,” ck12.org; “How Humans Evolved from our Hominid Predecessors,” humanjourney.as; “Recent Human Evolution, Wikipedia; “Six Changes That Prove Humans Are Still Evolving, With Natural Tweaks to Body,” indiatimes.com; and numerous other online sources. Introduction Human evolution is the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. This process involved the gradual change to the DNA of primate species ove