human evolution

 human evolution the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates Viewed zoologically we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species  that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in  Africa about 35 years ago. We are now the only living  members of what many zoologists  refer to as  the human tribe Hominini, but there is abundant fossil evidence to indicate  that we were preceded for millions of  years by other hominins,  such as Ardipithecus, Australopithecus and other species of Homo, and that our species also ived for a time contemporaneously with at least one other member of our genus H. neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals). In addition, we and our predecessors have always