how did people evolve?

Question

I know there's more to it than the monkeys, knees, etc.

details, please.

Answer 1

humans evolved from early primates. they developed large brains, walking upright, and opposable thumbs

Answer 2

About ~4 million years ago, the forests started to recede and were replaced by plains. Some of our ape-like ancestors stayed in the forests, and some of them moved to the plains. Whether they wanted to go or were forced to, we may never know, but to the plains they went. Those that were a little better at standing upright probably had a higher survival than the others, because they could see farther and more easily avoid predators. As always, those individuals that survive to produce more offspring are better represented in the next generation. Over many generations, we became upright standing and walking folks, mostly because the ones that couldn't aren't here anymore. Walking upright also had other advantages, such as freeing up the hands for other things, such as holding objects. This may have led to better hand articulation, which may have helped brain development, and therefore language, and the rest is, literally, history.

All because the forests receeded. Pretty cool, really.

Answer 3

lol i just watched a video on this in bio!!! apparantly there were 2 species of a type of human. there were the neadrathals and the homosapians. the neandrathals were very primitive, but they were really well adjusted to there surroundings, they were short and uber UGLY. on the other hand the homosapians looked more like us and were a bit smarter, but not as well adjusted to the climate. but since they were smarter, eventually they drove the neadrathals out of their land and eventually they went extinct, so apparantly we evolved from the homosapians....i think thats how it worked anyways....there was something on it about how homosapians and neadrathals could have had children but they couldnt confirm it.....so we might be part neandrathal, part homosapian lol anyways i hope i didnt bore you to death and i hope that helps..... : )