8 Surprising Facts About Human Evolution

Though the Theory of Evolution is very famous but still many people misunderstand it. Here are the 8 facts about Evolution that you should know.

Muhammad Raza Khan
3 min readDec 12, 2022
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In the 1850s, Charles Darwin wrote his famous book “On the Origin of Species”. In it, he described that species evolve and all kinds of life forms that exist today had a common ancestor in the past.

This was a revolutionary idea and many scientists worked on the idea. Today, we have gathered a lot of data from different fields of science which proves that Darwin was right.

But still, there are many misconceptions about evolution and the human body. Here are some surprising facts about evolution which will blow your mind.

No, We Didn’t Evolve From Apes

This is a common misconception about evolution that we evolved from apes alive today. That is not the case. We humans ( Homo Sapiens) evolved from an Ape that lived 8 and 6 million years ago.

Though we do share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and that is because we share a common ancestor, not because they are our great-great-grandparents.

Darwin also had a few misconceptions about evolution

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Muhammad Raza Khan

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