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Human Evolution: Traits - English
URL: http://primates.virtualave.net/traits2.htm

In addition, the geographic areas occupied by our ancestors expanded during the course of human evolution. Earliest known from eastern and southern Africa, they began to move into the tropical and subtropical areas of Eurasia sometime after a million years ago, and into the temperate parts of these continents about 500,000 years ago.

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What is a Human Being? - English
URL: http://members.tripod.com/Zinjanthropus/what_is_a_human_being.htm

The human species, as well as other animal species, are all different from each other. However, as you can see below, the difference between animal species is not expressed in the category Kingdom Animalia. The difference is obtained gradually from the very general category Kingdom through the subsequent subcategories : Phylum, Class, Order, and Family, and finally to the very specific categories - Genus and Species.

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Human Evolution - Planet Papers - English
URL: http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/942.html

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Human Evolution: Intro - English
URL: http://primates.virtualave.net/intro.htm

Human Evolution, the biological and cultural development of the species Homo sapiens, or human beings. A large number of fossil bones and teeth have been found at various places throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. Tools of stone, bone, and wood, as well as fire hearths, campsites, and burials, also have been discovered and excavated. As a result of these discoveries, a picture of human evolution during the past 4 to 5 million years has emerged.

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Human Origins - English
URL: http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00898816_A.html

Finally, all human groups are completely dependent on the use of language, without which they could not survive, and there is nothing comparable among their nearest nonhuman kin. The learning of previous generations is passed on by linguistic means, and new insights and experiences by individuals can become the property of the group as a whole when these are verbally transmitted.

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Human Evolution: Summary - English
URL: http://members.nbci.com/ecotao/hu_evo_intro.htm

Human evolution from an ancestral primate species is not a vague hypothesis, but a historical fact. Archaeological geology as a science had to precede the proposal of evolution, as an understanding of the immense age of the earth is necessary to understand evolution. Cuvier established amongst the scientific community the fact of extinction. Evolution only gained significant momentum after the theory of evolution, published by Charles Darwin in November 1859, implied that man was merely another product of life on earth, with origins shared by the other creatures and not its ultimate purpose.

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Primate-Science Review Copies Received - English
URL: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/review/nowak.html

Walker's Primates of the World. From Nigeria's needle-clawed bush baby to the snub- nosed langur of Tibet, from loris to lemur, from the woolly monkey to the "naked ape," primates are among the world's most diverse-and distinctive-groups of mammals. Seventy million years of evolving primate anatomy (much of it significantly influenced be a tree-dwelling lifestyle) has resulted in such defining characteristics as stereoscopic vision, a relatively large brain, grasping hands and feet, and superior levels of dexterity and muscular coordination.

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People, or Human Beings - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/primates.hominidae.homo.html

The single living genus and species, Homo sapiens, maintains permanent residence in nearly all terrestrial parts of the earth's surface. Exceptions include extremely arid regions, such as certain sections of Australia and the central Sahara Desert, and extensive ice-covered regions, especially most of Greenland and Antarctica.

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Taxonomy of apes and humans - English
URL: http://sayer.lab.nig.ac.jp/~silver/taxonomy.html

Goodman (1999) The natural history of the primates. Groves (1997) Taxonomy and phylogeny of primates. Wilson and Reeder (1993) Mammal species of the world. Nowark (1991) Walker's Mammals of the World Fifth edition. Napier and Napier (1985) The natural history of the primates.

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Family: Hominidae - English
URL: http://www.hominidae.org/

Modern humans and their direct extinct ancestors. Homo sapiens is the only species in the genus Homo of the family Hominidae that is living today, and extinct populations Homo--H. erectus and H. habilis and A. africanus, A. robustus, A. boisei, and A. afarensis- of ancestral to man are known only from fossil bones and teeth.

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