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Revision as of 17:42, June 5, 2009
Human evolution or paleoanthropology is a theory within evolution which posits that mankind evolved from more primitive species over the course of 40 million years, with the most dramatic changes occuring during the last 2 million years. An absence of intermediary fossils, no plausible pathway for the development of the brain, and countless other disproofs to the theory has rendered human evolution more of a philosophy of a belief system rather than a valid scientific concept.
| Claimed chain of early humans/hominids according to evolutionary science | |||
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| Image | Species | Details | Claimed Dates |
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Ardipithecus ramidus | Earliest claimed fossil hominid. | 4.4 mya |
| - | Australopithecus anamensis | Found in Allia Bay in Kenya, and named in 1995. | 4.2 - 3.9 mya |
| - | Australopithecus afarensis | - | 3.5 - 2.9 mya |
| - | Homo habilis | Called handy man due to tools found near his remains | 2.4 - 1.5 mya |
| - | Homo erectus | - | 1.8 mya - 300,000 years ago |
| - | Homo sapiens (archaic) | - | 500,000 - 200,000 years ago |
| - | Homo sapiens neanderthalensis | - | 230,000 - 30,000 years ago |
| - | Homo sapiens (modern) | - | 120,000 years ago - present |