The controversy surrounding Darwin’s theory regarding the origin of man, which has puzzled scholars in recent centuries, has finally subsided. It turned out that both man and anthropoid apes descended from one common relative - parapithecus. According to anthropologists, from this period, people and their humanoid relatives each went their own way of development.
About 300 million years ago, the most ancient parapithecus primitives appeared on Earth - the common ancestors of both apes and humans. It was these humanoid creatures that were divided into three lines about ten million years ago, each of which led to the emergence of modern orangutans, chimpanzees and humans.
Early stages of human development
The most important condition for the degeneration of parapithecs into humans was the development of upright posture. After all, only it could free the hands of these beast-like creatures. And this process, in the end, led to the appearance of a skilled person.
He lived about two million years ago. This creature, in the structure of the skeleton, was very similar to a monkey. Although, the structure of the pelvic bones and the position of the head, spoke of a certain straightness of the spine. And only a brain volume of 500 cubic centimeters indicated that it was much closer to a person than a gorilla or chimpanzee.
The next step in evolutionary development is bipedal. He lived about one and a half million years ago. The structure of his skeleton, found in southern Europe, suggests that he still looked very much like a monkey. However, Homo erectus already knew how to make fire and make primitive tools from stone and bone. In addition, he began to live in caves and began to settle in more northern latitudes outside the African continent.
