Maysville is a home rule-class city[2] in Mason County, Kentucky, United States and is the seat of Mason County.[3] The population was 9,011 at the 2010 census, making it the 40th-largest city in Kentucky by population. Maysville is on the Ohio River, 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Lexington.
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years. One of the earliest defining human traits, bipedalism -- the ability to walk on two legs -- evolved over 4 million years ago.
Itâs one of my favorite stories in the history of paleoanthropologyâone that involves an anatomist youâve probably never heard of and an infant who was attacked by an eagle and dropped into a hole almost three million years ago. The idea that humans evolved in Africa can be traced to Charles Darwin. In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Darwin speculated that it was âprobableâ that Africa was the cradle of humans because our two closest living relativesâchimpanzees and gorillasâlive there.