When man found he had evolved from another species, he wondered what those species might be. On the way to the answers, he found clues such as the similarities between apes and humans and fossils that are similar to us.
However, this did not start out as us knowing that we evolved. In fact, us even thinking about how close some species are didn't start until a man named Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution in the mid 1800's. The theory states that "plants and animals change slowly over geological time as they naturally adapt to the changes in the environment" (Susman, 2. This theory was slowly thought of as true over time.
Then, when Thomas Henry Huxley and some other European scientists compared apes and humans autonomically, he found that african apes were closer to humans than they are to monkeys.
Nowadays, since Raymond Dart found the first fossil of an ancient ape similar to us, us humans are still searching for answers into why and what caused us to evolve
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