• Question: How were humans first created?

    Asked by sophiecastillo123 to Adam, Joanna on 23 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 23 Nov 2012:

      Humans evolved by slow and small changes from an ancestor of modern monkeys (the pre-simian). But that creature had evolved slowly from more primitive mammals, and before that from reptiles, and before that fish, and before that single celled life, etc. Right back to the first chemical reactions that manged to construct some coating of fats to help speed up the reactions – the first cell.

    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 23 Nov 2012:

      You ask a very tricky question! It’s all about Evolution: so the development of organisms over billions of years by means of survival of the fittest!

      We all started out as a bunch of atoms at one point, that eventually developed into sugars then DNA and then a single cell and over billions of years this evolved (adapted to it’s environment) to what we are today. From cell to fish to reptiles etc to US – the modern human.
      You can follow our development over something that is called the “Tree of life” that was first hypothesised by Darwin:

      Darwin’s sketch: http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Evolution/darwin/darwintree.htm
      What it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree

      This article gives a really comprehensive overview if you are interested 🙂

      http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100513-science-evolution-darwin-single-ancestor/

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