Are there any Fossils which show a species very close to human but still slightly ape?
Think about going upstream on the the Mississippi River. When you get to St. Louis, if you take the right branch, you continue up the Missiissippi. If you take the left branch, you are on the Missouri River. One you have taken the left branch, you are on the Missouri. it is not “slightly Mississippi” River. We split from the other apes a few million years ago. The early humans were closer to apes because they live closer to the split. Homo ergaster and Homo habilis are among the earliest humans — genus Homo — thus closer to apes. ADDENDUM: You asked me a follow-up question in an email. I’m posting it here and replying to maintain the knowledge base. “How can one species split to another? I thought it would happen slowly.” Population isolation can take place over the span of a few generations, especially if the populations are isolated geographically. The isolation may not become fixed — the two populations unable to interbreed when reintroduced — for thousands of generations, but i
