Biology: Human Evolution

From the past few decades to this day, one of the most controversial and heavily researched topics in the scientific and paleontological fields is the evolution of human beings. New excavations and reconstructions constantly bring new evidence to reshape the human ancestral tree. Today, it is widely accepted that humans share a common ancestor with the primates and that we have evolved from some primate closely related to our modern day primates. Scientists, with today's technology, are able to reconstruct complete skulls of ancient hominids from just fragments of the original skull - like…