Early Human Ancestors

Our early human ancestors grew and changed in many different ways. At the beginning our human ancestors lived and acted like animals. Over time they grew and changed mentally, physically, and socially. People have found evidence that our humans grew and changed in detailed cave paintings and in the control of fire. Our human ancestors also evolved physically if you look at skulls you can see how the brain grew larger over time and how the teeth grew smaller. You can also look and see that the posture changed. All of this evidence shows that our human ancestors grew and changed over time.

One piece of evidence is that they started to settle communities which led to government, trade, and domestication of animals. Climate change forced people to settled down as a result they built Jericho which was built over 10,000 years ago. When people settled in Jericho they started to domesticate animals for food. Once they learned how to tame them they became a pretty reliable food source. Since different people tamed different animals they started trading animals and other provisions they had. This shows that our early human ancestors became more social and started …show more content…
Once our ancestors learned how to make fire they were able to cook meat, and sleep on the floor while still being safe from predators. Nowadays nobody eats raw meat, except for in sushi. Before our human ancestors had fire predators would be ready to kill them if they were going to sleep on the floor, so they had to sleep in trees. Sleeping in trees led to terrible posture but, once they learned how to make fires they would keep animals away so that they could sleep on the floor, sleeping on the floor led to better posture. Cooking and physical changes in teeth, and posture shows more evidence that our early human ancestors grew and changed over