This assignment requires reading and summarizing information about the evolution of human beings from apes, including the discovery of new species and their relationships to other hominids. This assignment requires students to watch a video, read articles, and write a journal entry discussing the evolution and migration of Homo species, as well as the impact of modern society on indigenous peoples.
Reading Human beings descend from apes, and are part of the superfamily Hominoidea. In the late Miocene epoch, the groups of apes that would eventually include humans broke off from…