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Key Takeaways
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• The common ancestors of mankind also gave rise to gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees.
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• Chimpanzees and bonobos come from the same genus and are our closest extant relatives.
• The first of the Homo genus was Homo habilis, who first used primitive stone tools.
• Homo sapiens probably evolved from Homo heidelbergensis or Heidelberg man.
• There is evidence of early human inbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals.
• The migration out of Africa probably happened more than once to give rise to dead-end species, such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans.
• The last human migration out of Africa happened about 55,000 years ago to give rise to all non-Africans in the world.
• The Toba Catastrophe killed much of the human population and redirected our gene pool.
