Heart disease kills about a half-million people every year in the United States. It begins with the clogging of the arteries - which is called atherosclerosis. When there is too much saturated fat and trans fat in the bloodstream, it sticks to the walls, which narrows the passageway that blood must travel through.
The earliest known fossil of a human ancestor, a female Ardipithecus ramidus specimen nicknamed Ardi, is 3.2 million years old. Scientific evidence says that the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared more than 200,000 years ago. Some fossils from the middle Pleistocene period (about 400,000 years ago), referred to as Homo sapiens rhodesiensis, may be archaic Homo sapiens - a transitional species.
exists and is an alternate of . The most generally accepted scientific theory states that the first humans (defined as members of the genus Homo) originated in Africa. The oldest known fossil of a human ancestor (a female Ardipithecus ramidus specimen nicknamed Ardi, 3.2 million years old) at a site called Aramis in the Middle Awash region of the Afar Desert in Ethiopia.