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Course: Big History Project > Unit 6
Lesson 1: How Our Ancestors Evolved | 6.0- ACTIVITY: Vocab Tracking
- WATCH: Unit 6 Overview
- ACTIVITY: Early Ancestors
- ACTIVITY: Threshold Card — Threshold 6 Collective Learning
- WATCH: Threshold 6 — Humans and Collective Learning
- WATCH: Human Evolution
- READ: Lucy and the Leakeys
- READ: Jane Goodall
- READ: Gallery — Human Ancestors
- Quiz: How Our Ancestors Evolved
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WATCH: Human Evolution
No, we really really did not evolve from monkeys. John and Hank Green explain this and lots of other things related to human evolution. Learn about the major milestones of our ancestors, from the first hominids to the rise of Homo sapiens, and discover how changes in climate, diet, and technology shaped our species over millions of years.. Created by Big History Project.
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- If primates "colonized" the Americas, as he stated in the beginning, then how did they show up in Africa?(3 votes)
- There would have been an Ice Age, which would have allowed the primates and evolved primates(namely,us) to move to Africa.(3 votes)
- What are composite tools at9:19.(2 votes)
- Tools made out of two different materials. (think ax with stone blade and wooden handle)(2 votes)
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- So monkeys are our cousins?(0 votes)
- All current species are 'cousins' to humans. We all share a common ancestor if you go back far enough.(2 votes)
- So where does Australopithecus fit in? I see Australopithecines and Homo Habilis but no Australopithecus here. Excuse me for the really long names.(0 votes)
- Australopithecus is an australopithecine.(2 votes)
- why is the homo sapiens species known as the 1st modern humans(0 votes)
- They were anatomically very similar to modern humans.(1 vote)
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