Planet of Life: Apes to Man
...ce provided evidences which are very hard to ignore; fossil records and archaeological findings where among those. It is believed that man originally descended from the apes and only about 4.9 M years had passed when man and ape separates. According to scientists, the chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of modern man. When they compared the behavior of man and the chimpanzees they found out that they behaved almost the same, with the body features functioning roughly the same way as that of humans. They explained that the difference in their behavior lies in their gene pools. Through the advancement of technology, archaeologists have been able to explore the deepest sea, the farthest places and do the impossible in order to find evidences to support this claim. Fortunately, a 3.5 M year old hominid imprint was found. In addition to this, in 1974, the oldest known hominid, about 3 M years old, was found in East Africa. It was named Lucy; with ape-like features, long arms and short legs. Shortly after Lucy has been found, austrolophitecus robustus was discovered. According to scientists, it has the most-advanced morphology. Its brain’s size and weight is the same as that of Lucy’s. It is also believed that they are the first toolmakers as the artifacts suggest. According to scientists, it was made possible by the enlargement of the brain and the development of intelligence. In 1984, in Northern Kenya, the homo erectus was found. It can stand erect and has a constricted throat and larynx making it hard for them to speak but they can reverberate sound. The Java Man and the Peking Man were among the homo erectus found in Indonesia and China, respectively. Finally, the modern man, the homo sapiens forms the complex society. It can walk upright and it has the ability to speak and to think. According to Charles Darwin, a well-known proponent of the Theory of Natural Selection, all species of living organisms have evolved, or gradually changed, from simpler organisms over vast periods of time. The conditions in the environment determine which organisms survive and reproduce. Based on this theory, an organism evolved from one form to another in order to adapt to his changing...