"Evolution"

One thing that I have learned about evolution is that the process takes a long amount of time.The thing that is so fascinating about it in my opinion is that evolution is not exactly proven to be a factual thing.Like what kind of person would I be to actually believe that my great ancestors were maybe monkeys...or any type of animal.I would like for our class to maybe classify the characteristics,or contrast and compare we humans and animals...I would like to learn who actually thought of this process..and what representives or support did the person have for people to actually believe them.