• Question: Where did humans come from

    Asked by anon-274956 on 14 Dec 2020.
    • Photo: Sarah Smythe

      Sarah Smythe answered on 14 Dec 2020:

      Humans have evolved over time! This means that we all started out as something else and over time, we have adapted to become the species we are now! Those adaptations are what we need to survive – often because of our environment!

      Unfortunately, I’m not an evolutionary biologist – so can’t go into much detail.

    • Photo: Amy Rattenbury

      Amy Rattenbury answered on 14 Dec 2020:

      We evolved from an ape-like ancestor, like chimpanzees and gorillas, with small changes taking place over millions of years.

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 14 Dec 2020:

      The oldest know fossil of a human ancestor is about 3.8 million years old, and was found in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2009, over 1 million years older than “Lucy”

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