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Human Evolution: Where Did Humanity Come From?

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Where Did Humanity Come From? An abundant amount of theories of the origins of humanity has been argued as the truth since the 19th century. These theories over centuries has changed and evolved with the constant change in the world and their views and from new information found. Many factors play a role in the theories of humanity. Some of them being the people and organizations that support the theory, the information that validates the theory, and most importantly the overall picture, their theory, that they are presenting as the truth. The Human Evolution for centuries has been one of the more popular theories believed to be the true origin of humanity. The human evolution states, “Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by …show more content…

Charles Darwin’s theory states, “is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring” (http://www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html). Darwin’s theory was unique because in his theory the main focus was natural selection. Darwin’s natural selection evolution theory is recognized as in the history of science as one of the best theories. Charles Darwin’s theory is validated by a mass range of scientific disciplines. These scientific disciplines are geology, paleontology, genetics, and the developmental biology. Charles Darwin’s theory had two aspects of it. The two main aspect say, “All life on Earth is connected and related to each other” which Darwin says is a product of, “modifications of populations by natural selection, where some traits were favored in and environment over others” (http://www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html). Other factors that distinct Darwin’s theory from other human evolution theories are that species change over time because of natural selection which causes change in the characteristics of species such as size and form, which new …show more content…

Where did humanity originate from? Like discussed before many of these theories have a massive amount of aspects, evidence, and people that validate each to be the true, truth to the origin of humanity. It is very clear that the way people from the 19th, when these theories first started to arise, and the 21st century view of the world has changed over time. Which plays an enormous factor when analysing and determining which theory or belief is the true origin of humanity. This is because the truth to this significant question is in the eyes of the viewer. There is currently no specific belief or theory that is classified as the ultimate truth of the origin of humanity so until there is one each human being is going to believe what they perceive to be the truth. Which they base this off of their own view of the world and aspects like religion, and their own scientific lens are also important factors that take part in their decision. To summarise, an abundant amount of theories of the origins of humanity has been argued as the truth since the 19th century and still to this date none of them has been confirmed as the true origin of

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