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MSN Encarta - Search View - Human Evolution (18702 words) |
 | Paleoanthropologists who strongly support this view think that the robusts should be classified in the genus Paranthropus, the original name given to the southern species. |
| Paleoanthropologists are engaged in an ongoing debate about where modern humans evolved and how they spread around the world. |
| Paleoanthropologists have debated whether early members of the modern human genus were aggressive hunters, peaceful plant gatherers, or opportunistic scavengers. |
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| Most paleoanthropologists used to believe that human evolution consisted of a single line that evolved progressively over time, an australopith species followed by Homo erectus, then Neanderthals, and finally modern Homo sapiens. |
| Paleoanthropologists now know that humans first evolved in Africa and lived only on that continent for at least the first two million years of our evolutionary history. |
| Many paleoanthropologists believe that early humans migrated into Europe by 800,000 years ago, and that these populations were not Homo erectus. |
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