Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38195691-20191127162526/@comment-44044902-20191218203722

And as for humans evolving from animals, guys, that seriosuly doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't go with what we know from science either, and also, how would some animal change from an animal, gain intelligence, and end up a human?

NinjaTeddyBear Actually, it makes a lot of sense. First of all, I'm not in the slightest way saying that what you believe is false. It may completely be right and I just look like an idiot. Just putting that out there, since this is something that no one really knows about.

Ok, now for the science part. We, humans, are homo sapiens sapiens. That's a fact. "how would some animal change from an animal, gain intelligence, and end up a human?" Well, the simple answer is evolution. Occasionally, a genetic variation gives one member of a species a different characteristic. It happens quite often (think of two parents with blue eyes who produce a child with brown eyes, though that's a really simple and generic example. A person who's born with autism from two parents who did not have autism in their genes is a better example). That individual passes the gene onto its child[ren]. More individuals with the new trait survive and pass it on to their descendents. Following this, an animal is clearly capable of producing offspring with a different kind of gene. When this new animal produces offspring, it now carries this new gene (and so on, and so on). If many beneficial traits spread over time, a new species evolves. That's a way a human can come out of (wrong choice of wording but I couldn't find anything better) an animal.

To clear something up (I've done a ton of research on this by the way), we did not evolve from monkeys, contradicting what many people believe (or don't). We may share another ancestor (from many millions of years ago), but we in absolutely no way came from monkeys.

"Modern humans are the product of evolutionary processes that go back more than 3.5 billion years ago. We became human gradually, evolving new physical traits and behaviors on top of those inherited from earlier primates, mammals, vertebrates, and the very oldest living organisms." –  Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Yikes I wrote a lot.