KEY POINTS
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- The process that has transformed life on earth from its earliest forms to vast diversity is called Evolution.
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- The force that initiates evolution of life is called Variation.
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- One of the earliest known human is Homo Habilis or Handy man, who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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- “Carolus Linnaeus” was the believer of Special creation.
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- The earliest man-like primate was “Ramapathicus”.
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- Louis Pasteur was the first who discarded the theory of spontaneous creation and gave that life originates from pre-existing life.
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- The number of chromosomes in man is 46 WHEREAS in orangutan, chimpanzee and gorilla is 48.
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- “Ylem” is not believed to be one of the gases present on the primitive earth.
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- Due to the dominance of dinosaurs over all possible habitats on earth, “Mesozoic era” is known as Golden Age of Reptiles.
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- The oldest evolutionary history was discovered in frog.