The history of the world in common parlance is the history of humanity or human history as determined from archaeology anthropology genetics linguistics and other disciplines and for periods since the invention of writing from recorded history and from secondary sources and studies. Meet the humanlike species that came before usour closest ancestors. According to creation scientists the evidence of anatomy physiology and genetics enables us to recognize human beings and apes as separately created kinds the fossils found so far indicate that apes and human beings existed as separate kinds with large but limited variability in the past as they do today. Ancient origins articles related to human origins in the sections of history archaeology human origins unexplained artifacts ancient places and myths and legends ancient origins presents how human origins are explained through three different perspectives a science and scientific evidence b religions and creation stories and c folklore and mythology