The evolution of humans — what the evidence actually says

Humans did not “come from the monkeys alive today.” Humans and other primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.) share common ancestors—ape-like species that lived ~6–7 million years ago. Multiple independent lines of evidence (fossils, dating, genetics, anatomy, archaeology) converge on the same story: our species Homo sapiens arose in Africa ~300,000 years ago and later dispersed worldwide, […]

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