What kind of animal are the ancestors of human beings?

Ape. Scientists have discovered the earliest ancestors of mankind.

A French team found fossilized bones and teeth of ancient humans in Kenya last year, and after research, scientists found that these may be the earliest ancestral remains ever discovered.

Researchers have shown the fossils to the world, pointing out that they are older than Lucy, an ancient human fossil found earlier, and that they may be more than twice as old as Lucy. This discovery will add more topics to the already fierce debate over the origins of mankind.

The fossils, which include 12 bones and teeth, were discovered last year in central Kenya and prove that Lucy did not have the true ancestor of humans. The latest discovery was announced at a press conference in Paris, and a week later scientists will name the fossil and officially announce the finding.

The oldest human fossils previously discovered were found in Ethiopia, 4.5 million years old, and the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil was found in Ethiopia in 1974 and belongs to another branch of the human ancestral map, but some scientists disagree. Now, these newly discovered fossils prove that the apes were just able to stand up and walk, and that it is likely that Lucy was just a strange-looking ape.

Narrator: For many years, a mysterious shadow has been hanging in the minds of the locals of Shennongjia, lingering. No one can tell what it is, and people are passing on a name by mouth, "Savage".

What kind of animal is the so-called "wild man"? Does it have any connection to humans? Walking upright but covered in hair, perhaps this mysterious "wild man" is related to the primitive ancestors of mankind?

Or, the so-called "savages" are nothing more than an illusory legend.

The ancestors of humans were Australopithecus.

Human beings are an independent branch that diverged from the ape system, and its emergence and development is a long historical process. Anthropological research in the paleoplex shows that 12 million years ago, many species of ancient apes were alive and well in the Old World. But the question of which of these are the direct ancestors of man, where and when the evolutionary process from ape to man began, is still far from being solved.

The most recent stage in human evolution is the stage of Homo sapiens, including modern humans. It can be divided into early Homo sapiens and late Homo sapiens. Early Homo sapiens lived about 250,000 to 40,000 years ago and were ancient humans in the Middle Paleolithic period.

Late Homo sapiens belongs to modern humans in terms of anatomical structure of Homo sapiens, which began to appear about 40,000 or 50,000 years ago. During the late Homo sapiens stage, the range of humans expanded, reaching Australia and the Americas from the Old World. In this way, the existing fossils can be traced back to the various stages of human evolution, from near to far, from late Homo sapiens, early Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, all the way back to Australopithecus.

Early representatives of humans, older and more primitive than Australopithecus, are still being explored.