Human Ancestors


 
 
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Human Ancestors

Ancestors are the one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line descent than a grand parent. All living beings are in fact descendants of a unique ancestor commonly referred to as the last universal common ancestor(LUCA) of all life on Earth, according to modern evolutionary biology. Common descent is an effect of speciation, in which multiple species derive from a single ancestral population.

To know about organisms ancestors, we have to study there evolutionary history. Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from ape like ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioural traits shared by all people originated from ape like ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

Human Ancestors :

 The fossil evidence clearly indicates that origin of man occurred in central Asia, china, Java and India(shivalik hills).

The common common ancestor of apes and man is a primate Dryopithecus. The next stage was Ramapithecus in the hominid evolution.

Both were hairy and walked like gorila and chimpanzees. Ramapithecus  was more like man and was the fore - runner of hominid evolution but Dryopithecus was more ape - like. The evolution took place as follows :- 

                   

 
 
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