# Human Evolution **Domain:** Evolution / Paleoanthropology / Continuity **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Darwinian Evolution]], [[Australopithecus afarensis|Lucy]], [[Jane Goodall Institute]], [[Machine Intelligence Continuum]] --- ## Definition **Human evolution** is the branching biological and cultural history through which _Homo sapiens_ emerged among other hominin lineages. ## Corpus Context It is the deep-time beginning of the corpus’s continuity argument. Machine intelligence is not outside evolution: it develops from primate perception, hands, language, tools, institutions and increasingly externalized memory and computation. ## Backlinks [[Natural History Museum, London]] · [[American Museum of Natural History]] · [[Jane Goodall Institute]]