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The 89 pages that link to Human evolution, each with the reason it gives.

• PleistoceneRelated: Many major changes in human evolution occurred during the Pleistocene.

• CenozoicRelated: Humans emerged near the end of the Cenozoic.

• Alfred Russel WallaceRelated: Wallace’s later disagreements with Darwin over human mental capacities shaped debate about evolution.

• Thomas Henry HuxleyRelated: Huxley’s anatomical arguments challenged claims that humans were separate from other animals.

• Great Rift ValleyRelated: Rift-region fossils document major stages in the history of hominins.

• NeotenyRelated: Neoteny has been proposed to explain some similarities between adult humans and juvenile apes.

• Tool use by animalsRelated: Animal tool use informs comparisons with the technologies and cognitive capacities that evolved in humans.

• Quaternary glaciationRelated: Repeated climate shifts altered habitats and resources encountered by human populations.

• PaedomorphosisRelated: Some hypotheses interpret human juvenile-like facial traits relative to other apes as paedomorphic.

• TailRelated: Human ancestors lost their external tails, leaving the coccyx as a remnant.

• Henry Fairfield OsbornRelated: Osborn applied his evolutionary views to human origins and racial classification.

• Niche constructionRelated: Food processing, fire, and social practices altered environments that shaped human selection.

• PrimatologyRelated: Comparative primate evidence helps reconstruct which traits humans share with other primates.

• Homo luzonensisRelated: The species adds evidence to the diversity of human evolution in Asia.

• Facultative bipedalismRelated: Facultative bipedalism helps frame comparisons between ape locomotion and the emergence of habitual human walking.