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.
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.