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Ch10. From Tree Shrew to Ape
Ch11. The Earliest Hominids Ch12. The Lives of Early Hominids Ch13. The Ancients Ch14. The Moderns Ch15. The Evolution of Language |
The fossil record for human evolution provides a tantalizing, yet by nature fragmented, look at our biological and cultural ancestry. New discoveries constantly shift our understanding of our ancestral lineage, and seem to ask many more questions than they answer. This section deals directly with the fossil evidence for human origins, building on the foundations that evolutionary theory and primate studies provide. |