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How do we know what they looked like?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-what-they-looked-like/

Seeing our ancestors’ fleshed-out faces and bodies helps us to imagine them as living beings. Instead of staring at fragments of bone, we can gaze into a face from the past. Reconstructions that show flesh on bone begin with a detailed knowledge of primate anatomy.

How do we know an individual’s age at death?
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-an-individuals-age-at-death/

Scientists can sometimes work out how old an individual was at the time of their death. Their age at death is determined by examining their teeth and bones, and by understanding how quickly these structures develop within the bodies of our ancestors.

Some interesting connections
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/some-interesting-connections/

The trends and changes that made us human did not develop in isolation. There are some interesting connections between the four major trends.

Complex technology
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/complex-technology/

Our ancestors have been using tools for many millions of years. As our ancestors’ intelligence increased, they developed the ability to make increasingly more complex stone, metal and other tools, create art and deliberately produce and sustain fire.  

Larger brains
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/larger-brains/

Important changes to the brain have been occurring for more than two million years. These changes have resulted in dramatic increase in brain size and the reorganisation of the brain in which some parts, such as those involved in learning, have developed more than others, such as smell and vision

Sharing a common ancestor
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/sharing-a-common-ancestor/

Humans did not evolve from an ape - we are apes, and our closest living relatives include chimpanzees and gorillas.

Humans are mammals
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/humans-are-mammals/

Humans are members of a large group of animals known as mammals (Class Mammalia).

Gabriel Bayfield (1781-1870), Gould's colourer
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/gabriel-bayfield-1781-1870-goulds-colourer/

Gabriel Bayfield was employed as Gould's primary colourist for 30 years. The quality of Bayfield's work was praised by leading naturalists of the time.

The Holocene Epoch (10,000 years ago to the present)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-holocene-epoch/

During the past 10,000 years, Australia's global position and climate has changed little, but there have been enormous changes in its plants, animals and environments. Such changes have happened since the first people arrived in Australia, but the most rapid and dramatic changes have occurred dur

The Cretaceous Period (146-65 million years ago)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-cretaceous-period/

In the early Cretaceous, many of the southern continents were still joined together as part of the southern landmass called Gondwana. Northern continents formed the great landmass Laurasia. These two supercontinents shared many plants and animals dating from an earlier time when they were joined