According to the humans of Planet Kareem, or according to their history books, the first human civilization formed about ten thousand years ago.
Humans in general may have been existing much longer than that but that was when the first civilization was recorded.
It was also because of this that they had a ten-thousand-year-old calendar.
Many societies believed different things when it came to the origin of humanity, but none of them were ever truly correct.
Some said humans had evolved to that point, others said humans were a product of a divine entity's creation, and there were those who claimed that humans were seeded on this planet by space aliens.
If one checked, they would find that there was an atom of truth in all those claims. They just weren't worded right.
As Kael read the documents of the Project Ape folder, he began to understand and his horizons were broadened.