Modern Man
About five to six million years ago, the succession of species that gave rise to us separated from the succession that led to the apes. As Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power,” noted, “We want to believe we’re descended from angels when we’re descended from primates.” From a common ancestor, the apes moved off in one direction and we, the hominids or family of humans, moved off in another. After a number of genera of hominids and many species within the genera, it was in Africa, between 100,000 and 150,000 years ago, that modern humans, Homo sapiens (sensible humans), emerged. From there, we spread through Africa, into Asia and Europe, and to the rest of our world.
Evolution is as well documented as any phenomenon in science, as strongly as the earth’s revolution around the sun. - Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist
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