[a fool in paradise]

Thousands of years ago, somewhere in Africa, lived a man who – probably – had no idea that he, among all the other men in his group, would go on to become humankind’s most recent common male ancestor. Scientists would call him “Adam.”

So multiple men evolved from apes at the same time? Which came first the chicken or the egg has finally been solved. Multiple eggs just appeared from multiple lizards and they all grew chickens what laid the same kind of eggs.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Why do all pictures of Adam and Eve show them with bellybuttons?

[Driabrin]

Our common biblical ancestor is not Adam, it’s Noah; everyone but him died in the flood. Likewise, if you accept evolutionary theory, there would have been multiple near-extinctions where the genetic tree was pruned to only a few branches. Both Noah or his evolutionary equivalent would have had other men around.

[stremba]

Not sure why I’m wasting my time but...

Individuals do not evolve. Populations are the basis of evolution. There was no “magic moment” where an ape gave birth to a human. There was a population of apes which became separated, at least in the sense of breeding, from another similar population of apes. One of these populations gradually developed characteristcs that were more and more human-like. Modern humans descend from that population. There would have been a large number of members of this population at the time when they became recognizably human.

In case you think there’s no evidence for such things, refer to the talkorigin.org faq’s. There are pictures of fossils on there of hominids that are neither clearly ape-like nor clearly human-like. They have asked prominent creationists whether these were apes or humans. All responded to the question, but the responses differed depending on which creationist was asked. Now, if an organism must either be clearly an ape or clearly a human, how can there be disagreement about whether it’s an ape or a human? There certainly were populations of organisms such as I’ve described, where human-like characteristics began to appear in an ape-like species.

[buwaya]

They weren’t apes. They were sort-of human, or even fully human and interfertile with whatever we consider was “human” at the time. What they weren’t were our earliest direct ancestors. Man#1’s brothers, cousins, etc.

This study says nothing about who was human or an ape. Or a lizard or a chicken for that matter.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Or as Mr. GG2 would say “show me the monkey men” :-)