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    Human evolution is the study of how the genus Homo emerged and changed over time, leading to modern Homo sapiens. Scientists use many disciplines like anthropology, archaeology and genetics to understand human evolution. It is believed that humans diverged from chimpanzees around 5-7 million years ago in Africa. Several extinct human species like Homo erectus and Neanderthals inhabited different parts of the world. While the dominant view is that modern humans originated in Africa around 50,000-100,000 years ago before migrating elsewhere, some argue that human populations evolved separately but interbred worldwide over a longer period. Evidence suggests Neanderthals and other hominins like Denisovans interbred with

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    Human evolution is the study of how the genus Homo emerged and changed over time, leading to modern Homo sapiens. Scientists use many disciplines like anthropology, archaeology and genetics to understand human evolution. It is believed that humans diverged from chimpanzees around 5-7 million years ago in Africa. Several extinct human species like Homo erectus and Neanderthals inhabited different parts of the world. While the dominant view is that modern humans originated in Africa around 50,000-100,000 years ago before migrating elsewhere, some argue that human populations evolved separately but interbred worldwide over a longer period. Evidence suggests Neanderthals and other hominins like Denisovans interbred with

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    Human evolution is the study of how the genus Homo emerged and changed over time, leading to modern Homo sapiens. Scientists use many disciplines like anthropology, archaeology and genetics to understand human evolution. It is believed that humans diverged from chimpanzees around 5-7 million years ago in Africa. Several extinct human species like Homo erectus and Neanderthals inhabited different parts of the world. While the dominant view is that modern humans originated in Africa around 50,000-100,000 years ago before migrating elsewhere, some argue that human populations evolved separately but interbred worldwide over a longer period. Evidence suggests Neanderthals and other hominins like Denisovans interbred with

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    Human evolution is the study of how the genus Homo emerged and changed over time, leading to modern Homo sapiens. Scientists use many disciplines like anthropology, archaeology and genetics to understand human evolution. It is believed that humans diverged from chimpanzees around 5-7 million years ago in Africa. Several extinct human species like Homo erectus and Neanderthals inhabited different parts of the world. While the dominant view is that modern humans originated in Africa around 50,000-100,000 years ago before migrating elsewhere, some argue that human populations evolved separately but interbred worldwide over a longer period. Evidence suggests Neanderthals and other hominins like Denisovans interbred with

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    Human evolution is the phenotypic history of the genus Homo, including the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species

    and as a unique category of hominids ("great apes") and mammals. The study of human evolution uses many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, linguistics and genetics. The term "human" in the context of human evolution refers to the genus Homo, but studies of human evolution usually include other hominids, such as the Australopithecines, from which the genus Homo had diverged by about 2.3 to 2.4 million years ago in Africa. Scientists have estimated that humans branched off from their common ancestor with chimpanzees about 57 million Africa, years and ago. Europe) Several species and subspecies of Homo evolved and are now extinct, introgressed or extant. Examples include Homo erectus (which inhabited Asia, and Neanderthals (either Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) (which inhabited Europe and Asia). Archaic Homo sapiens evolved between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago. The dominant view among scientists concerning the origin of anatomically modern humans is the hypothesis known as "Out of Africa", recent African origin of modern humans, ROAM, or recent African origin hypothesis, which argues that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and migrated out of the continent around 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, replacing populations of Homo erectus in Asia and Neanderthals in Europe. Scientists supporting an alternative multiregional hypothesis argue that Homo sapiens evolved as geographically separate but interbreeding populations stemming from a worldwide migration of Homo erectus out of Africa nearly 2.5 million years ago. Evidence suggests that an X-linked haplotype of the Neanderthal origin is present among all non-African populations, and Neaderthals and other hominids, such as Denisova hominin may have contributed up to 6% of their genome to modern humans. Archaic genetic contribution contradicts total Eurasian replacement around 100,000 years ago.

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