This is quite an inspiring article that we read during and outside humanities class. It was written by an author called Randal Susman for the magazine Calliope in September 1999. This article tells you all about why we study human origins and what are the developments and achievements. Since writing began people have been wondering the same things over and over again. Things such as how were we created. The Christians came up with a pretty good answer, Adam and Eve the two first humant who where both magically dropped from the sky.
But scientists and historians such as Charles Darwin thought otherwise. They believed in evolution which of course contradicted everything the Christian church said. As a result Nineteenth century scientists and religious people got into long rows about who was right but obviously in the mid- Nineteen hundreds there was no fossil evidence of our Ape like ancestors. Well not until Henry Huxley came along and foumd the first complete skeleton of our ancestors. Huxley also made some other important discoveries like as the author states “Huxley believed that anatomically, African apes and humans were similar, more similar in fact than apes were to monkeys.” I think this blog post proves that there were apes before us and we didn't simply fall out of the sky.
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