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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.
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Africa is known to be the cradle of human evolution, and recent studies show that the peoples today inhabiting other continents originate from a relatively small band of Homo sapiens sapiens who moved through the Near East, into Europe and beyond some 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Males dominated 'out-of-Africa' migration 60,000 years ago by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Homo sapiens sapiens (our subspecies of humanity) have 62,000 miles of blood vessels running through us to keep each human alive.
Got Newness? by H. Bernard Wechsler / Advertising, marketing, public relations community
Once such faculties were established through a completed maturation, and thus available to and maintained by subsequent generations of progeny, the evolved Homo sapiens sapiens could readily create innovative cultural systems, involving innovative technologies, that would eventually enable modern man's spread and effective accommodation to harsh, restrictive environmental conditions after having evolved in a mild environment.
Modern man in potential: human evolution as viewed from a new ... by Lieber, Michael M. / Frontier Perspectives
 
 
 
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