Biology: Human Evolution

From the past few decades to this day, one of the most controversial and heavily researched topics in the scientific and paleontological fields is the evolution of human beings. New excavations and reconstructions constantly bring new evidence to reshape the human ancestral tree. Today, it is widely accepted that humans share a common ancestor with the primates and that we have evolved from some primate closely related to our modern day primates. Scientists, with today's …

…orangutan, I also would like to add that I believe that somewhere along the line Hominus Protus branched off from Igium Magnus because of the similarities between the evolved Igium and the ancestral Hominus. Once the skulls were put into genus groups I was able to deicide which skull was the ancestor and which was the evolved species by comparing the changes in specific traits and keeping in mind what the end product looks like.