Who Were Adam & Eve? The Questions of Human Origins
When Darwin wrote The Descent of Man, he lacked direct evidence for human evolution. He surmised that man must have evolved from an apelike animal based on anatomical comparisons among humans and other mammals, embryological similarities, and the existence of what he called “rudimentary,” or vestigial, organs – biological structures found in humans that seemingly served little or no function but that appeared to be derived from fully functional ancestral forms….
At the time Darwin wrote The Descent of Man, paleontologists had just discovered Cro-Magnon Man fossils (1868), dated at 35,000 years of age, in the caves of France….