• Question: how did humans come to roam the earth

    Asked by wario5000 to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Aimé Fournier

      Aimé Fournier answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      It seems we evolved from similar primates (not from modern apes but from the ancestors we share with them) over a million years or so. Those ancestors evolved from very primitive mammals over 100s of millions of years or something (look it up). There is abundant fossil evidence for animal evolution, and with short-lived animals you can see evolution in the laboratory. As for “roaming” we probably adapted to that when living conditions (food, weather etc.) became adverse where ever we had settled.

    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Great question! We often just say ‘evolution’ and don’t really think of HOW it happened, there was a really good program on BBC (it’s on iPlayer now) about how Darwin came to his theory and all the evidence behind it.

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hd5mf

      It’s probably very sad, but there’s a tree of life interactive animation, that you can use to see all the stages of evolution into humans as well!! While I was looking for the link I realised it’s the same organisation that planned and run the “I’m a scientist-get me out of here” (Wellcome trust)

      http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/

    • Photo: Diana Samuel

      Diana Samuel answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I’m not sure I can really add to those answers – they sound good to me!

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