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There is no one single link between man and the apes, rather, modern man evolved through a series of stages from a common ancestor of both man and apes. Our nearest living relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos, whose ancestors evolved away from ours some seven million years ago.

Scientists have uncovered fossilised bones of many hundreds of individuals, representing several early hominid species, and these are mainly in various museums, where they can be studied. Of course, the evidence is not just in the fossil bones of our ancestors. Scientists have also analysed the DNA of chimpanzees and modern humans and independently ascertained that our ancestors must have diverged around seven million years ago.

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