Human Ancestry

This is a good solid paper Try to use more specifics The evolutionary relationships of Australopithecus and Homo are still argued today among top anthropologists. The direct human phylogeny is not certain, and many links to modern man from four million years ago are possible. What is not argued, however, is that the evolution of man was an evolution from the neck up, rather than from the neck down. After our transition from the arboreal …

…can be linked to natural selection. Those individuals who could better adapt to the environment, either with their knowledge of tools or with their knowledge with fire for example, would have a better chance of living longer and passing those genes and knowledge onto their offspring. The slow process of adaptive learning is the real, underlying process of evolution that was exemplified between A. africanus and Homo erectus during the long journey to modern man.