EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEING
Response to questions regarding a video presentation
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You are asked to watch and study the video in the link above, and respond to the following Question:
How and Why do scholars argue that the continent of Africa has birthed the first/earliest humans and is the home / the place where the first steps to human societal development and civilization took place?
What is the historical significance of this claim?
What is the importance of this claim towards an understanding of the African Diaspora?
Requirements:
- title related to the question to which you are responding.
- Fully & completely write outthe question before offering your response. After fully stating the question, skip a line or two and then offer your response.
- Your Essay must have an introductory paragraph, a body of the essay, which can be divided into several paragraphs and a concluding paragraph.
- Students must include all of your Sources of Information – Indicate your Sources both in Footnotes and in a Bibliography. Do not use the term “Work Cited” in place of the Bibliography.
Answer previewAccording to Dirks, Paul, and Lee, humankind is believed to have gone through various stages before developing to a modern man. Charles Darwin developed a theory of human evolution. He posited that human being developed from the apes (proto-humans).[1] He believed that the evolution began about millions of years ago and the first man lived in Africa because of the existence of both guerrilla and the chimpanzee. Darwin paved the way for many archeologists and historians to trace the human evolution.
Human Societal Development or Civilization
Africa is believed to be the cradle of human societal development or civilization. The earliest man remains have been traced back to Africa. It is believed that the earliest man was Australopithecus Africanus whose remains were in South Africa by Raymond Dart. The remains were said to be of a child. The [1] Dirks, Paul HGM, and Lee R. Berger. “Hominin-bearing caves and landscape dynamics in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.” Journal of African Earth Sciences 78 (2013): 124…
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