Why We Study Human Origins

Why We Study Human Origins
by Randall Susman
Calliope: Exploring World History

There has been years of arguments about this topic. It is "What is human origin". Well, this topic can stir up many arguments. That is because for many people they think that god created humans and, they don't want to be related to apes. Before I tell you why we study human origins I have to tell you what it is. First of all, the study of human origins is a long term for evolution. It is how you go from one living thing that adapts to it's surroundings and changes to another living thing. An example of this is, going from apes to humans. Here is a picture of it that sums it up quite well.

 

Now I will tell you why we study it. This might be confusing to you because scientists know that this strikes up many different arguments but they still learn about it. This topic can also offend people by being related to apes. However we study it because we want to know what really happened. Also we want to know how and why we adapted to our surroundings. Another reason is that, we want to know if we will change again and not stay humans, and if we do is it for the better or for the worse.

According to the author of a textbook, "Huxley believed that anatomically  African apes and humans were similar, more similar in fact than apes were to monkeys.". What is interesting about this is that on the inside we are more like apes than monkeys are, but on the outside monkeys do look more similar.