By Randall Susman
Calliope:Exploring World History
"Anatomically, African apes and humans were similar, more similar in fact than apes were to monkeys"- Thomas Henry Huxley.
Article Summary: Reading the magazine copy we got I saw that a lot of scientists have different perspectives to one another, this would give other ideas to the question of where we came from, when we began and why or how we began. Thomas Huxley has given us a clue from his quote from above that we broke off from some kind of ape branch as well as others did. But why are we the only ones here now and others died out? Charles Darwin comes into play when he makes a theory of evolution.Evolution means "The gradual development of something" -Google. This states that we somehow adapted and developed to the surroundings to make our lives easier, an example of this is that we would live close to food and water resources. But the main thing that still boggles scientists minds today is that how we started to walk. These people have made multiple theories but a few of them are known and make sense; the first idea is the theory that we started to walk because we wanted to take fruits from trees and to see over tall grass, but after debates the other group of scientists stated we started to make tools with our hands and that it is more energy efficient to walk on 2 legs (bipedal). But the last question remains, " How are we different from apes?" The question is answered by the skeleton of us and the apes, our pelvis is shaped of bipedal walking but the apes is for more 4 legged walking. The other difference is the skull of the head, our skull is made to look forward when on 2 legs but an apes has eyes higher because of the walking of 4 legs.
As long as the people that are eager to learn our humanity investigate we will get closer to the final answer.
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