Early Humans

How far back does the human species go? 

    According to our text, the human species, or the earliest Homo Sapiens, go back about 250,000 years and are part of the Paleolithic age. They were also known as "gathering and hunting" peoples, as they did this to survive.

   After reading on online article from livescience.com, it stated that the human species go back about 300,000 years and were not the only speices to be around. In this article, it mentioned that Homo Sapiens had existed around the same time of at least eight other species to up to twentey- one species, such as the Denisovans and the Homo Luzonensis, where they not only lived together in caves, but they mated with each other, or interbreeded.  

    To compare the different breeds, Australopithecus Afarensis, Homo Erectus, and Homo Sapiens, I would want to say that there are all similar to each other in physicality and bone structure. The two that are more similar to each other are Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens. All three species stand in an up-right posture and ambulate by feet. Although some bones are larger or wider than the other two species, the built and skeletal structures are still very similar, and you can see this from the diagram below. (The diagram below only displays a quarter of species of that the Smithsonian claims.) With evolution, adaptation and interbreeding of the different species, this helped change and evolved one species to the next. 

Works Cited:

https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution

https://www.livescience.com/how-many-human-species.html