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How Humans Came to Be

How Humans Came to Be

Humans changed from ape-like animals over millions of years. Scientists study old bones and tools to learn about this long process.

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STUDY THE STORYKey vocabulary
Noun
change
Adjective
Used to describe something that is large in size.
Verb
walk
Noun
leg
Verb
To acquire knowledge or skills through study or experience.
Noun
The organ in the head that controls thoughts, memory, and emotions.
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Check your understandingExercises

Part 1: True, False or Not given

Humans changed from ape-like animals.

Human evolution took only one million years.

Early humans lived only in Africa.

Part 2: Multiple choice

What did scientists find to learn about early humans?

What was one of the first big changes for humans?

Part 3: Fill in the blank

Human evolution is the story of how people changed from  blank.

Later, humans got bigger brains and learned to make  blank.

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