Da Vinci knew about the connections of people to monkeys 500 years ago. He didn't even bother to argue.

Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution is considered one of the most important ideas in modern times. But he was not the first to believe that human beings are like monkeys.

At that time, the most controversial aspect of Darwin's intellectual revolution was the conclusion that we, humans, as well, evolved from the earliest species, and that the closest cousins were the big monkeys.

DNA evidence has confirmed exactly how similar we are to chimpanzees. Centuries earlier, he translates Periscope from Darwin, yet another genius had made the discovery.

Leonardo da Vinci took it as self-intelligible that we are close to monkeys. He was not even tired of arguing about it. In his notes, he simply observes, on the basis of his complex anatomical studies, that human beings and monkeys were close cousins.

He doesn't say we're already connected to monkeys, but we're almost the same species. In other words, Leonardo writing simply on the basis of his observations more than 500 years ago, said a little-a much the same thing that modern scientist Jared Diamond, on the basis of DNA evidence, says in the book The Fall and Rise of the Third Chimpanese. /Periscope