When did man evolve from what species?

Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, biologists, chemists, and even philosophers and religious scholars have studied the origin of human beings from various angles, but there is still no most convincing statement.

There are many myths and legends about the origin of mankind, some of which are quite similar, and of course there are many differences, and in these myths, it is very interesting to find that there are similarities with the theory of evolution.

Summarizing the various myths, the origin of human beings can be divided into five types: "called out", "originally existed", "plant-informed", "animal-made", and "made of earth".

Egyptian mythology says that human beings were called by God. Since ancient times, Egypt has been a mysterious place, it is the most self-contained of all ancient countries, she has her own way of life, it is difficult for external civilization to influence her, so her human origin is not the same as other peoples.

The Egyptians believed that long before Egypt appeared in the world, the Almighty God Nu existed, who created everything in the heavens and the earth, and called Subi, and there was wind; Call to Tafuna, and there will be rain; Calling the Harpy, the Nile flowed through Egypt, he called again and again, all things appeared one by one, and finally, he said "man and woman", and in the blink of an eye, Egypt was full of many people.

When the work of creation was complete, Nu transformed himself into a man, became the first pharaoh, ruled over the earth and mankind, and created a scene of peace and prosperity.

Myths that have existed since the beginning of mankind are scattered among the North American Indians and the Maori of New Zealand. According to Indian mythology, God created the heavens and the earth and then led mankind up from the earth to live on the earth. The Maori mythology says that Ranch and Baba are heaven and earth, the source of all things, and that at that time the heavens and the earth were not separated, and it was pitch black, and their sons, longing for light, pushed the heavens and the earth away, and the light appeared, and the human beings, who had been hidden in the darkness, were discovered, and they were also born of heaven and earth.

It is said that the god Odin (Odin) was walking on the beach with other gods one day and saw two trees growing on the sandbank, one of which was majestic and the other was graceful, so he ordered the two trees to be cut down and created a man and a woman respectively, Odin was the first to give life, and the other gods were given reason, language, blood, skin color, etc., and became the ancestors of Germania.

The myth that humans were transformed from animals is quite common. In Australian mythology, it is said that man is transformed by a lizard; American mythology says that man is transformed into mountain dogs, beavers, apes, etc.; Greek mythology also says that a certain people are changed from swans, and a certain people are changed from oxen.

From this myth of "animals becoming humans", we can find that it is very close to the theory of evolution, especially in the mythology of the Americas, which says that man was transformed into an ape, which is completely consistent with the theory of evolution, and this coincidence is very intriguing.

It evolved from apes.

In the evolution from ape to man, social activities played an important role, including social labor and the interaction between different individuals in the process of labor. Through the way of life such as gathering and hunting, complex forms of group organization were established. The social relationship of close interdependence and division of labor and cooperation between individuals in the group has been established, and an increasingly complex social organization has been established.

At the same time, language is needed for social activities, and language is used in all aspects of life, and writing is gradually developed, which promotes communication and exchange between people. At the same time, on the basis of language, there is a social culture, and the use of language and writing plays a crucial role in the evolution of the brain.

In the process of primate evolution, organisms are in an increasingly complex social structure, survival experience is accumulated and transmitted through the group from generation to generation, and the complex individual relationships in the group produce various physiological and psychological experiences, all of which promote the perception and cognition of life for nature and self.

Through the influence of complex behaviors and social activities, primates gradually distanced themselves from ordinary animals in terms of intelligence, and embarked on the road to a higher form of life.

Complex social activities have created human culture, which in turn has promoted the formation and development of human intelligence. It has taken a long time from the evolution of primates to humans, and this process is also the process of the development of primate intelligence, or the accumulation process of life's knowledge of nature and self, and the rapid development of intelligence is the key factor that contributes to the differentiation of some primates from ordinary animals.

What do you want to ask? The earliest life arose conditions, producing proteins. Other life macromolecules are then produced.

Life forms originated from single cells at the earliest, animals and plants originated from greeneye insects (he is the ancestor of animals and plants, both animals and plants), and then plants and animals differentiated, and plants evolved through algae, mosses, etc., and then evolved to gymnosperms angiosperms. Animal evolution began to evolve from aquatic to terrestrial.

From the well-founded evolution, it is believed that the most reliable evolution of man is primates, but it does not mean that man evolved from monkeys, but it should be said that humans and chimpanzees and apes evolved from the same ancestor, and this ancestor may be very similar to the current monkeys.

If you want to push it back, it is the same ancestor as all mammals, and then you have the same ancestor with all vertebrates, and this ancestor is very likely to live in water at this time. But the latter inferences become very ethereal.

There is a saying that man evolved from Australopithecus, and further on:

The first is the stage of chemical evolution: simple inorganic small molecule substances polymerize into organic molecules due to ultraviolet light, lightning, heat, etc.; Organic molecules are then aggregated into larger clusters of organic molecules; After a considerable period of time (about 1 billion years), the most primitive organisms --- prokaryotes were finally formed.

Then there is the stage of biological evolution: simply put, prokaryotes --- eukaryotes (whether eukaryotes are ** than prokaryotes there is no definite answer, only from archaeological fossils, prokaryotes are earlier than eukaryotes) - invertebrates in the ocean (mainly trilobites) - spinal cord organisms (the first to appear is ostracoderm, a primitive fish) - fish continue to evolve and eventually leave the water body, Landing on the continent (the first fish pioneer to land was the total-finned fish) - and then amphibians ---reptiles (dinosaurs and the like) - the dinosaurs flourished until the Cretaceous period, for some unknown reason, there was a mass extinction of all the dinosaurs, and most of the mammals of the time. At this time, primates were in the early ascending stage, so they developed rapidly (because there were no natural predators and competitors) - early small primates continued to evolve, and later large primates appeared - > Australopithecus appeared (4 million years ago) - > homo (2 million years ago) - > Homo sapiens (250,000 years ago) - > man.

At this point, the complex history of biological evolution is as described above, and there is no need to repeat the details of plants and various microorganisms (such as viruses).

It depends on what you're talking about! Jurassic? Cretaceous? Or was it when there was just one thing on Earth? In the beginning, there were single-celled organisms that evolved.