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1.      You are required to visit the following links:

2.      Investigate about human evolution and early humans, their work history, migrations, stone age, and fossil evidence.

3.      The investigation must be done within one week, and students will give the teacher a written report.

4.      Students will have one period per day to investigate at school.  They may also work at home.

5.      Work individually on the report and the investigation.

6.      If you have any doubt, you may send your question to the teacher’s e-mail address.

Variations

    After  having the work done, the students will work in groups of five in order to prepare a group presentation about each topic described in the contents.  Students will have ten days to organize presentations.  One group may present each day.  The teacher will tell you when to start.

      The importance of knowing about human evolution and early humans is to know the physical evidence of both fossil and lithic for human evolution and the interpretation of this evidence.  It is also important to know that,  Australopithecus (literally "Southern Ape") was the generic name given to the first-discovered member of a series of fossils of creatures closely related, if not ancestral, to modern human beings.  Homo erectus, the first generally recognized human species, most likely originated in Africa, and it quite possibly evolved from Homo habili. Homo sapiens, the hominid species that includes modern humans, emerged during the Pleistocene epoch.     The present discontinuities between archaic and modern humans in the fossil record outside of Africa and the later appearance of modern humans in those areas have instead led to the view that modern humans originated solely in Africa; subsequently, from there they radiated to the Middle East and then to Europe, supplanting the Neanderthals living in these regions.