by theadvancedapes

Humans are a species that permanently inhabit every continent on the planet. But of course, like all other species, we’ve evolved. So where and when did this take place? Figuring out important temporal and spatial questions related to our own evolution has been one of the central missions for evolutionary anthropology over the past 100-150 years. In order to gain satisfactory answers we had to learn a lot about our closest relatives, our fossilized ancestors, and our own genomes. In the video below I attempt to explain how our understanding of evolution has developed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4S2qJboi4I