Question

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The earliest humans,
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, or "handy man," adapted to the environment by making and using tools. Two more recent groups, the
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in Europe, and their close relatives from Asia, the
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, lived at the same time as the first modern humans. But those groups were less capable of adapting to the environment, so they vanished about 28,000 years ago. The scientific name for modern humans is
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, or "wise people."

Answer 1

Answer:

a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.

Answer 2

Answer:

Homo habilis, Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo sapiens

Step-by-step explanation:

The earliest humans,

Homo habilis

, or "handy man," adapted to the environment by making and using tools. Two more recent groups, the

Neanderthals

in Europe, and their close relatives from Asia, the

Denisovans

, lived at the same time as the first modern humans. But those groups were less capable of adapting to the environment, so they vanished about 28,000 years ago. The scientific name for modern humans is

Homo sapiens

, or "wise people.

Homo habilis:

A species of the genus Homo known as "handy man" or Homo habilis lived between 2.33 and 1.4 million years ago, during the Gelasian Pleistocene. The fossils were found in Tanzania between 1962 and 1964, and Mary and Louis Leakey are credited with both the discovery and the description of this species. Prior to Curnoe's research on Homo gautengensis in 2010, it was thought that Homo habilis was the earliest species of the genus Homo.

Neanderthals

Neanderthals were very early (archaic) humans who lived in Europe and Western Asia from about 400,000 years ago until they became extinct about 40,000 years ago. Denisovans are another population of early humans who lived in Asia and were distantly related to Neanderthals

Denisovians

The 'Denisovians', as they have been nicknamed, were more closely related to Neanderthals than modern humans. This suggests the Neanderthals and 'Denisovans' shared a common ancestor after modern humans and Neanderthals split. Perhaps this ancestor left Africa half a million years ago with the Neanderthals spreading west to the Near East and Europe while the Denisovans headed east. However, this does not necessarily mean they are a 'new' species as they may be already known from fossils that have no DNA record to compare, such as Homo heidelbergensis or H. antecessor.