Popular nutrition Any of a number of weight-reduction diets that either eliminate one or more of the essential food groups, or recommend consumption of one type of food in excess at the expense of other foods; FDs rarely follow modern principles for losing weight. See Diet.
Early Modern Homo sapiens. All people today are classified as Homo sapiens. Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals. It is now clear that early Homo sapiens, or modern humans, did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries.
Type of Homo Sapiens that lived in Europe and the Middle East between 100,000 and 30,000 B.C. Homo Sapiens Sapiens Wise, Wise Human Being A species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; they were the first anatomically modern humans Paleolithic Age From the Greek for Old Stone, the early period of human history, from approximately 2,500,000 to 10,000 B.C., during which humans used simple stone tools; sometimes called the Old Stone Age Nomad A person who moves from place to place