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The first migrations out of Africa
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-first-migrations-out-of-africa/

About 2 million years ago, the first of our ancestors moved northwards from their homelands and out of Africa.

What will we look like in the future?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/what-will-we-look-like-in-the-future/

Predicting what we will be like in the future has been the domain of science fiction writes for centuries

How do we know what they ate?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-what-they-ate/

The foods eaten by our ancestors can tell us a lot about their lifestyles and the environments in which they lived. Food has also played a major role in human evolution, particularly when meat became a significant part of the human diet about two million years ago.

How do we know what they looked like?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-what-they-looked-like/

Seeing our ancestors’ fleshed-out faces and bodies helps us to imagine them as living beings. Instead of staring at fragments of bone, we can gaze into a face from the past. Reconstructions that show flesh on bone begin with a detailed knowledge of primate anatomy.

How do we know an individual’s age at death?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-an-individuals-age-at-death/

Scientists can sometimes work out how old an individual was at the time of their death. Their age at death is determined by examining their teeth and bones, and by understanding how quickly these structures develop within the bodies of our ancestors.

Some interesting connections
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/some-interesting-connections/

The trends and changes that made us human did not develop in isolation. There are some interesting connections between the four major trends.

Complex technology
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/complex-technology/

Our ancestors have been using tools for many millions of years. As our ancestors’ intelligence increased, they developed the ability to make increasingly more complex stone, metal and other tools, create art and deliberately produce and sustain fire.  

Larger brains
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/larger-brains/

Important changes to the brain have been occurring for more than two million years. These changes have resulted in dramatic increase in brain size and the reorganisation of the brain in which some parts, such as those involved in learning, have developed more than others, such as smell and vision

Sharing a common ancestor
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/sharing-a-common-ancestor/

Humans did not evolve from an ape - we are apes, and our closest living relatives include chimpanzees and gorillas.

Humans are mammals
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/humans-are-mammals/

Humans are members of a large group of animals known as mammals (Class Mammalia).