This is not the type of science inquiry skills we want to teach our children. Although people in Darwin's time were offended by the notion that humans evolved, most people today accept the idea that humans are members of the primate order and arose from apelike ancestors. Now the controversy centers on how humans have evolved. Only the mechanism is treated as theory. Science Insights , Addison Wesley, 1996.
Activities are traditional question and answer.
This series defines evolution so broadly that the term loses all meaning and is compatible with just about any process. Most early hominid species eventually became extinct. The first modern-looking appeared about 100,000 years ago. Here, you can see that the embryos of the fish, rabbit, and human are quite similar, even though they look very different as adults. The evolutionary history of humans can be traced back from the present through species that are now extinct.