Every day 210 people die from heart disease in SA. SPONSORED: September is National Heart Awareness Month in South Africa. World Heart Day is on 29 September, and with 210 people dying from heart disease every day, thereâs every reason why we should take this seriously. In fact, after HIV/Aids, heart disease and stroke are the second biggest killers in South Africa .
One of the earliest defining human traits, bipedalism -- the ability to walk on two legs -- evolved over 4 million years ago. Other important human characteristics -- such as a large and complex brain, the ability to make and use tools, and the capacity for language -- developed more recently. Many advanced traits -- including complex symbolic expression, art, and elaborate cultural diversity -- emerged mainly during the past 100,000 years.
Apes appeared in the Miocene period, at about 20 million years ago. Biology 13A Lab Manual. Lab #1 Anatomy and Physiology in Perspective 12. The earliest humans appeared 5-6 million years ago. They belong to a group called Australopithecines (âSouthern Apeâ). They are distinguished from apes because of their bipedal (upright) locomotion.