How were apes born? What did apes evolve from?

The ancestors of humans were apes. Apes began to emerge in the Oligocene, about 30 million years ago. However, not all apes are direct ancestors of humans, and some apes are human"Uncle", some apes are human"Uncle"。

The apes, which anthropologists consider to be the ancestors of humans, appeared very late. It is the Rama ape, named after one of the heroic princes of the ancient Indian epics, Rama (Rama's translation is now unified as Rama). They lived about 10 million to 15 million years ago.

Rama apes were first discovered in Mount Sivalik, India, Pakistan. In the late 60s of this century, Rudaaucus found in the Early Eocene coal seams of Hungary also belonged to Rama ape. In particular, a fairly complete mandible fossil of the Rama ape type found in the limeba coal kiln in Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China in 1976 is the most complete and closest to the early ancestor of humans of the same kind found in the world.

The time is also more than 10 million years ago. According to the excavations, the body of Lufeng Australopithecus is the size of a chimpanzee, with a short snout and underdeveloped canine teeth, which is not commonly used by ordinary apes"**"。However, their intelligence is slightly higher than that of other animals, which, combined with their frequent activities in the open ground, prompts them to further divide their hands and feet.

Therefore, it is believed that Lufeng Australopithecus was able to grasp branches or other natural objects with their hands for defense and feeding. In this case, the hands have been divided, and the legs should be able to stand upright.

Human beings evolved from apes, so how did apes come about, and human beings are earth creatures.

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, apes evolved from sea creatures, and man evolved from apes. The Theory of Evolution

It is proposed that the ancestors of humans were apes, and apes began to appear in the Oligocene, about 30 million years ago.

Apes are mammals.

It is large and resembles a monkey, with many types, no cheek pouch and tail, and some features are similar to those of humans. A common name for the primate ape family, which includes two families. Although apes are often referred to together, monkeys are sometimes referred to as apes, and apes are sometimes referred to as monkeys, but they are biologically different animals.

The main difference between the two is that monkeys have tails, while apes do not. Taxonomically, man is a type of ape. Early apes began to emerge about 25 million years ago.

Modern apes appeared 18 million years ago, orangutans appeared 14 million years ago, gorillas.

It appeared 7 million years ago, and humans and chimpanzees appeared 300 to 5 million years ago.

About 15 billion years ago, the universe was created. About 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth was born. About 3.3 billion years ago to 2.5 billion years ago, in the Archean period, the earliest living organism, prokaryotic cell fungi, appeared.

About 2.5 billion to 600 million years ago, about 2.5 billion to 600 million years ago, eukaryotic algae, primitive coelenterates, mollusks and arthropods appeared. About 600 million years ago, the Paleozoic Era, 100 million years ago, was the era of biological greatness. Invertebrates appeared in the Cambrian period, and seaweed began to flourish; Vertebrates appeared in the Ordovician, and marine invertebrates began to flourish; Fish appeared in the Silurian period, and plants began to land; Amphibians appeared in the Devonian, and fish began to flourish; Primitive reptiles appeared in the Carboniferous period, and amphibians began to flourish; Reptiles similar to mammals appeared in the Permian.

About 100 million years ago - 70 million years ago, the Mesozoic Era was the age of reptiles. The earliest dinosaurs appeared in the Triassic; The earliest mammals and birds appeared in the Jurassic, gymnosperms flourished, and dinosaurs flourished; In the Cretaceous period, marsupials and placentas appeared, the earliest flowering plants appeared, and dinosaurs dominated the world. The Cenozoic Era, which began about 70 million years ago, was the era of mammals and humans.

In the Paleocene (about 70 million years ago) of the Tertiary period of the Cenozoic Era (about 70 million years ago to 3 million years ago), advanced mammals were born; The earliest primates appeared in the Eocene (about 60 million years ago); In the Oligocene (about 40 million years ago), monkeys and apes arose among primates; During the Miocene (about 25 million years ago), Australopithecus spread across Eurasia; By the Pliocene (about 12 million years ago), Australopithecus gradually transformed into humans. The Quaternary period of the Cenozoic Era (about 3 million years ago to the present) is the era of mankind. In the Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary (about 3 million years ago), hominids began to evolve into modern humans, and humans developed from the higher primates of Australopithecus.

From about 10,000 years ago to the present, it is called Holocene. In the order of primates, humans and apes are the most similar in terms of physical structure. Humans and modern apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees) share a common ancestor – a species of australopithecus.

Man developed from Australopithecus. In the transition from ape to man, the decisive step was to walk upright down to the ground. Humanity goes through four stages of development after becoming a fully formed person.

i.e. early ape-man, late ape-man, early homo sapiens, and late homo sapiens. Late Homo sapiens is modern humans.

How was the Peking Man site discovered?

The earliest ape-man fossil found in the world is the Javanese ape-man found on the island of Java, Indonesia, in 1891, which is 60 to 800,000 years old. The Javanese ape-man, together with the Peking man discovered in Zhoukoudian, China, in 1927, was once recognized as the "earliest" human in the world. At that time, it was believed that the history of mankind was no more than 100,000 years old, and the first human beings appeared in Asia.

The Shandong Yiyuan ape man, discovered in China in 1981, belongs to the same era as the Beijing ape-man. However, this theory of the earliest origin of human beings has been overturned by two archaeological discoveries in China. After the liberation, archaeologists successively found ape-man fossils in Lantian in Shaanxi Province and Yuanmou in Yunnan Province.

The Lantian ape-man is 1 million years old, and the Yuanmou ape-man is 1.7 million years old.

So, how long is human history? In the last two or three decades, archaeologists have discovered many ape-man fossils on the African continent, giving us a new understanding of human history. In 1959, an almost complete fossilized ape-man skull and labor tools were found in Tanzania, dated to 1.75 million years ago.

In 1972, fossilized ape-man skulls, leg bones and stone tools were discovered in Kenya and dated to 2.6 million years ago. In 1973, it was reported that fossils of ape-man were found in Ethiopia about 3 million years old or 3 million years ago. From this point of view, human history is not 800,000 years, nor 1.7 million years, but more than 3 million years.

The ape-man is considered to be the direct ancestor of humans, with the dual physiological characteristics of humans and apes, and lived about 2 million to 340,000 years ago. The ape-man skull is low, the brow spine is prominent, and the teeth are large, which has the intermediate nature of ape and man. They were already able to make stone tools and were the first to make tools.

Ape man can be divided into early ape man and late ape-man.