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@Citizen Z no I wasn't there when those fossils were found but that doesn't mean its a forgery. If you want observable proof for evolution, I think you should study genetics (however I'm more interested in fossils) and even with fossils you can see how organisms transition to form different organisms.

Idk what your definition of observable is but if you expect to see a species evolving to form a new species in your lifetime you have not understood evolution

@Yoda k show me the evidence of apes turning into humans

Alright let's start with australopithecus Africanus

We know they are closely related to hominids because of the skull structure

Their remains have been found in these locations:

Alright, @Yoda has been warned for '**Bad word usage**'.

I can't effing send pics

http://www.efossils.org/species/australopithecus-africanus

So I'll send you links

Now the skeletons have been dated to roughly 2.9 to 2 million years ago

And I know you disagree with the dates but Im sure you can agree that they existed

Do you? @Citizen Z

Anyway, it was from this species that we get the first hominids

We know that because of the limb structure but I won't go into those details now

This species was the common ancestor of all hominids and I'll send a link to show them

https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-habilis/

The similarity is pretty obvious and this species is called homo habilis which did not coexist along the aforementioned australopithecus Africanus and we know this because of relative dating

And we also know they made stone tools because we have found stone tools and hand crafted materials in homo habilis sites and in their graves

Not yet homo sapiens, but they made stone tools... Pretty impressive right

Anyway, these guys had a "cousin", homo rudolfenses

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-rudolfensis

I don't expect you to read it so just look at the picture of the skull

Now homo rudolfensis was the ancestor of homo erectus

I'm sure you've heard of that

So like, they were the ones who were confirmed to walk upright because of their hip bone structure

Anyone with any knowledge in forensics can confirm that so there is little doubt that homo erectus walked upright

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-erectus

Again, you don't have to read it but if you saw the picture you can see how the skull is similar to the skull of homo rudolfenses and also how much more similar it is to a modern humans skull

*side note there are other hominids who lived at the same time but we're not interested in them right now because I'm talking about the origin of "humans"*

And then we have homo hiedelbergenesis

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-heidelbergensis

The similarity to a human skull is increasing and it is becoming less and less like an "ape"

This guy then evolved to form homo sapiens!!!! Which is us!!!!

Yaaay

Now if you want more "evidence" of the transformation read from the links I sent you and see how the tooth cavities and hip bones all suggest common ancestry

Aannnd most importantly we have genetics

We were able to extract nuclear DNA (yes nuclear DNA and not mitochondria DNA) from a sample of homo Neanderthal fossil (oh btw the common ancestor of homo sapiens and homo Neanderthal was homo hiedelbergenesis) and confirmed that we share their DNA suggesting, rather confirming that we interbred with them at some point

@Citizen Z *dab* if you actually read that and still have problems feel free to ask

Lol