Write a 9 pages paper on the evolution of ape and man. The ‘Origin of Species’ and ‘Descent of Man’ published in 1859 and 1871, respectively, startling as it may, Darwin’s advocacy made a 360 degrees turnabout in the course of what scientific thinking and Modern Biology ought to be. Capturing its context, ‘Evolution’ is “a descent with modifications to include the transformation of species through time, including both changes that occur within species, as well as the origin of new species” (Losos, J. “What is Evolution?”). The ‘Origin of Species’ offered an explanation on the Natural Selection featuring the ‘survival of the fittest’ which claimed to be the engine and cornerstone of Modern Biology. Natural Selection in the context of Darwin’s framework is described to be the “revolutionary change that comes through the production of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals with different combinations of these variable characters” (Montgomery, S. “Charles Darwin and Evolution…).

In the light of the above, the “distinguished Russian-born biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) commented that “nothing seems to make sense in biology except in the light of evolution” (Zhao, “Darwin’s Impact on Biology” and Losos, “What is Evolution?”).

Over the centuries, archaeologists, paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, naturalists and other scientists painstakingly searched for answers to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution to include the claim that apes were a direct lineage of man. The movie ‘Jurassic Park’ is just a good example of conveying the message to the public that contemporary archaeologists, paleontologists and genetic engineers, among others to this day are still hungry for concrete evidence related to man’s evolution.

Cognizant of the above, this academic paper is purposely written to present some discussions on the issue of whether or not the statement: “man’s ancestral lineage directly originated from the apes”.