If primates "colonized" the Americas, as he stated in the beginning, then how did they show up in Africa?

There would have been an Ice Age, which would have allowed the primates and evolved primates(namely,us) to move to Africa.

So monkeys are our cousins?

All current species are 'cousins' to humans. We all share a common ancestor if you go back far enough.

So where does Australopithecus fit in? I see Australopithecines and Homo Habilis but no Australopithecus here. Excuse me for the really long names.

Australopithecus is an australopithecine.

What exactly is the big bang

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/universe-scale-topic/big-bang-expansion-topic/v/big-bang-introduction https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/big-bang

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Lesson 1: How Our Ancestors Evolved | 6.0

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Description: No, we really really did not evolve from monkeys. John and Hank Green explain this and lots of other things related to human evolution.

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