Evolution

 Human evolution is the change in the human species over time. According to Charles Darwin, humans have evolved to what they are today from apes. Many other scientists seem to agree with his theory and have also contributed by finding evidence of human evolution. There have been fossils of what are suspected to be human bones. Scientists have came to the conclusion that humans are in fact, primates. Studies and analysis shows that humans are considerably similar to primates, such as great apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees, physically and genetically. They all share a common ancestor as well. Physically, all these primates share the ability to walk on two legs, grasp with limbs and a large brain that can develop to create thought. In addition, many scientist believe that the first evolvement of humans occurred in Africa due to the fact that all human like fossils have been discovered in Africa, such as the bones of Lucy that were found to be at least 3 ½ million years old.

By utilizing these fossils, scientists are able to determine what these humans main activities were. By comparing human fossils against one another due to ages they are able to define how humans have evolved over time. The many changes and adaptations among the genetic make up of these apelike creatures have made evolution of humans possible. While some accept the evolution of humans from apes, where did it all began for humans. It has been said that the first kind of life forms on this planet were the evolution of the amoebae, fungi and algae that lived underwater and evolved onto land. The first animals were single celled organisms called Protozoa, from (the Greek word proto meaning first in time and zoa meaning animal). When reproducing the protozoa splits into two separate animals or cells. Like many other simple organisms bacteria can multiply by asexual reproduction or by binary fusion, this is when an adult splits into 2 separate parts and starts budding, an the outgrowth from the parent organism and then breaks off and becomes another separate organism. This occurs when the nucleus of one cell divides, forming two new cells. Over a period of about 19,000,000 million years of time these animals multiplied and diversified and evoluted into many types of creatures and animal life forms. Let us not forget the conditions of the planet had to be right and in order.  The simplest of this group was called amoebae and they reproduced asexually. Fungus arose from these single celled organisms. As time passed, more complicated cells were born and these cells gradually became even more complicated. They eventually combined with each other or married to give birth to even larger organisms. The more complicated an organism such as algae is the larger its brain is. Thus the more intelligent that organism becomes. Millions of years after that the next group of animals developed called metazoans. Their bodies were composed of specialized cells grouped to form tissues, organs and systems much like the animals of today. These animals multiplied and diversified and over a period of time evolved into man, many types of animals, and dragons called terrible lizards or simply dinosaurs, such as the Dimetrodon.  When dimetrodon who was of the Paleozoic Era, ruled, this deadly creature roamed the valley before the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era. These inhabitants went through many climatic changes over millions of years, which resulted in the evolutionary human. The resemblance between humans and the dimetrodon was the teeth. Approximately, 360,000,000 million years before the dimetrodon some creatures crawled out of the ocean. Within 20,000,000 million years they split into 2 groups. The Diaplsids who had two holes, two openings in the skull which evolved into all modern reptilians, such as turtles, crocodiles, alligators, lizards, etc.; Then you had the Synapsids who had a single hole in the back of their skulls, which evolved into all proto-mammals such as the dimetrodon, armadillo, whale, dogs, cows, humans and others. You had the genus homo, the Australopithecus. This was a creature who lived millions of years ago. They differed chiefly in size and there were two types of Australopithecus. The first form was those who stood four feet and could walk erect called paranthropus. The second form was the Java man who is called pithecanthropus meaning monkey man or ape man. Then you had other types like the Neanderthal who lived for about 100,000 years then disappeared. Then there is the Cro-Magnon who was said to have roamed Europe 400,000 years ago, including homo erectus and many other species in between. The Peking Man also belonged to this species who was here half a million years ago, long thought to be along the migration of modern man. The Peking man was a type of prehistoric man who lived about three hundred and seventy five thousand years ago in what is now northern China. Members of the species Homo erectus “erect man” stood about 5 feet tall. They had a brain about twice the size of an australopithecine’s. Most of these species evolutionary man came from the ape family. Among the different species of ape-man you have the black-haired Lar. This is where you get the word “lord”, or “master” from. The Lares plural for lar were recognized for their intelligence. These Lares were the head monkeys or spiritual monkeys well known. This is where the word “monks” come from.

There are many people who disagree with human evolvement from apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Despite the scientific proof, there are people in society that do not believe that humans are apelike creatures. Believers of the Christianity religion believe that all things, even man, were created by God. In addition, there are the people who could not fathom the fact that they can have extremely similar genetic make up to primates. It has been proven that with time and effort, primates possess the same abilities to learn as humans do. Primates also have similar bone structure as humans. For example, primates have five fingers and toes, a spine, a large sized brain, and teeth which are all similar in structure to humans. Even the way primates reproduce sexually is similar to those in humans. Even though primates are very similar to humans, the way they live and their natural differences than humans hinder their evolvement into full human form to benefit their survival.

All in all, human evolution is what scientifically proves that humans have evolved from primates. There is not much concrete proof that explains the similarities genetically and physically in humans and primates. However scientifically, by the studies of fossils and artifacts, the evidence is overly abundant. In some cases, people are in denial about their forth coming but the proof is certainly in the science. Humans are the evolved and advanced form of the apes amongst others.