Let us remember that long before the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species there were already contradictions on this controversial subject, however, after Darwin's findings, the subsequent discovery of new fossils and the beginning of new research began to provide evidence of the evolution of the human species from other species, until consolidating a scientific area that would later receive the name of Paleoanthropology.

The breaking point is that the hypothesis on the origin of the human species is not compatible with the fossil record, hence, fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, as some scientists discard their importance in the origins of the human lineage (hominids), while another group of experts confer them a stellar role in evolution.

These imprecise positions cause science to offer incompatible data on the origin of the human species, therefore, it is understandable that among experts in Paleoanthropology there are groups that are working under completely different paradigms, which is not very unlikely to occur in other fields of science.

The contradictions are of such magnitude that, in the current context, some scientific disciplines support paleoanthropology in order to promote a true reinvention of the study of the origin and evolution of the human species..

However, the truth is that, in a study entitled "Fossil apes and human evolution", researchers found that most of the stories about human origins are not compatible with the fossils we have today, and where it is inferred that living apes alone do not provide sufficient evidence to reconstruct the starting point of the human species.

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