But with insight into retrospective aetiology based on the present situation, much could be cleared up in the vivid representation of the inferred state of man which causes difficulties in
view of the way we inevitably think today
about human origins.
Between
about 200,000 and a million years ago, our
view of
human origins is blurred — most of the fossils of hominins, or members of the
human family, are isolated, fragmentary, or spread widely across Europe, Asia, and Africa.