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human: see anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture . ..... Click the link for more information. ; human evolution human evolution, theory of the origins of the human species, Homo sapiens. Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings of paleontology , anthropology , and genetics , and involves the process of natural selection (see Darwinism ). ..... Click the link for more information. ; race race, one of the group of populations regarded as constituting humanity. The differences that have historically determined the classification into races are predominantly physical aspects of appearance that are generally hereditary. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Preliminary work
indicates that the child was an anatomically modern human who died
roughly 55,000 years ago, between ages 8 and 10, and was intentionally
buried. In September 1995, South African geologist David Roberts of the
Council for Geoscience in Bellville discovered those tracks, the oldest
known footprints of any anatomically modern human. Measurements
of the Singa skull's shape more closely match those from archaic
Homo sapiens fossils than those from anatomically modern humans,
Stringer asserts. |
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