So if the world had not been destroyed in Beneath, would the sentient apes eventually have evolved into homo sapiens, as Australopithecus and other sentient apes did in real prehistory?
shareThe apes you mention in "real history" didn't evolve "into" homo sapiens sapiens, but they did share a common ancestor if that's what you meant.
Mostly the direction evolution takes is steered by the surrounding environment, acting on available mutations within a population.
Who knows what that world of ape-men would have looked like millions of years down the road? I don't think there's an answer for that one. Aside from the fact they are fictional characters, were they to actual exist in the world depicted we simply don't know enough about that world to even guess.
A very interesting question. I do not think that the evolution would take this path on that planet.
shareNo, but it wasn't destroyed after Cornelius and Zira went back in time and had Caesar.
shareI don't know anything about evolution but my college professor is an anthropologist. He told me it takes a million years for an ape to evolve into a human. Since this took place 2000 years in the future, there is still a long way to go before the apes turned into humans
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