What kind of animals did we come from? Apes and monkeys? Because if that’s the case, they do still exist. In fact, my understand of the fossils that have been found and were interpreted to be cro-magnin or neanderthal were apes and monkeys such as “Lucy” and the fake “Piltdown Man.” Is this correct?
We share a common ancestor with the other great apes and primates in existence today. But we did not evolve from any of them.
In fact, my understand of the fossils that have been found and were interpreted to be cro-magnin or neanderthal were apes and monkeys such as “Lucy” and the fake “Piltdown Man.” Is this correct?
No, it isn't. Lucy is a perfectlly legitimate fossil of an extinct hominid species. There are perhaps dozens, if not hundreds, of neanderthal fossils. Piltdown Man was a hoax perpetrated by an unknown person.
We don't know yet.