This category is for sites about human evolution. Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerned with the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species. The genus Homo is first known from the remains of Homo habilis who roamed the earth from about 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Other members of the genus Homo followed, but it is unclear which of these were actually ancestors of modern man, Homo sapiens, who first appeared about 250,000 years ago.
Please submit here only sites that are concerned with the evolution of humans. Sites about other species of the genus Homo such as Homo erectus or Neanderthal Man should be submitted to: Hominidae.
Sites in languages other than English should be submitted to the appropriate category of World.
The Multiregional Continuity Model of human evolution contends that after Homo erectus left Africa and dispersed into other portions of the Old World, regional populations slowly evolved into modern humans. This theory contrasts with the Out of Africa Model, which asserts that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa, migrated into Eurasia and replaced all populations which had descended from Homo erectus.