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The Human Story written by James C. Davis is didactic because it teaches the reader about the history of the human kind, how ancient people settled down, founded cities,and formed religions. Through-out pages 1 - 126 there are changes and continuities that occur, global interactions, and I also learned many new facts and points about the evolution of humans. The Human Story is filled with facts about our history, as humans, but what interested me the most was our beginning, how we filled the Earth. Our ancestors, The Homo Erectus, some times called Upright men, evolved in Africa and then moved to Asia about 2 million years ago. Homo Erectus had flatter skulls and heavier brows than we do, the Homo Sapiens. The Homo Erectus vanished 300,00

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