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.
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.