Question

Describe the evolutionary history of hominids for the last six million years or so. (Hint: is it more bush like or a consecutive string of bipedal forms?)

Answer 1

Answer:

Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates—in particular genus Homo—and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism and language,[1] as well as interbreeding with other hominins, which indicate that human evolution was not linear but a web.

The study of human evolution involves several scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, paleontology, neurobiology, ethology, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, embryology and genetics. Genetic studies show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago.

Within the superfamily Hominoidea, the family Hominidae diverged from the family Hylobatidae some 15–20 million years ago; subfamily Homininae (African apes) diverged from Ponginae (orangutans[a]) about 14 million years ago; the tribe Hominini (including humans, Australopithecus, and chimpanzees) parted from the tribe Gorillini (gorillas) between 8–9 million years ago; and, in turn, the subtribes Hominina (hominins, humans and extinct biped ancestors) and Panina (chimpanzees) separated 4–7 million years ago.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Hominids lived as hunter–gatherers for the vast majority of their evolutionary history

Explanation:

Evolution of hominids over the years-

Hominid species were changing over periods of hundreds of thousands of years,  or for  the last six million years adapting to new environmental conditions. And thus, given that the present fossil record gives us only a glimpse of these evolving species, it's very difficult -- even unnatural -- to identify exactly when a species "became" something else.

Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence showed that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from ape like ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million year