Question

give a brief account of human evolution.

Answer 1

Human evolution is a gradual process that took place slowly in time. All human beings on the earth regardless of their skin colour and other features belong to a single species called Homo sapiens. All human beings evolved from primates in Africa.
Human beings share common ancestory with gorillas and chimpanzees. Various changes in our ancestors occurred through mutation or other ways of bringing the variations. These changes kept on accumulating over generations and gradually resulted into speciation of new species called Homo sapiens (human beings).
The different stages of human evolution from ancestral primates to modern human beings are as follows:
Dryopithecus and Ramapithecus (lived around 15 mya)
Man like primates (evolved around 3-4 mya)
Australopithecus(Homo habilis ) (human like evolved around 2 mya)
Homo erectus
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens (evolved 75,000 -10,000 mya)