Early Buddhist Text (EBT) does not mention the source of life on Earth. It indicated there were lives on Earth an extremely long time ago. However, the human species was not one of them. There were devas without gender differences in another realm of existence. Some of these devas came down to Earth. They ate the mushroom on Earth and started to like it. As they ate more, they put on weight and became unable to fly. Their bodies started to change. Some evolved to become male, others became female. The males and females then started to become attracted to each other. Some of them had sex. It was deemed disgusting by the majority. Therefore, those who committed the “offence” were chased out of the village. They started families and had children.
Initially, humans had extremely long lives. After several generations, desires of humans increased and led to greed, jealousy, stinginess, like and dislike, hatred, and delusion. The lifespan decreased from one generation to another. Also, crimes of killing and stealing increased. To solve the problems, humans started to elect a leader. He wasn’t required to toil the soil but to take care of societal security. He was a security guard and got paid by the people to do the policing job. With the monopoly to use force, he made himself the king of the land. However, he was virtuous and protected the people from security threats internally and externally. After several generations, the morality of humans decayed so much that lifespan became shorter than 20 years. There were of course the associated changes to the body structure of humans (probably became like monkeys). Then, humans started to repent and improve their morality. As a result, humans became happier and lifespan increased. However, there were many cycles of increasing lifespan followed by decreasing lifespan in the past million of years.
It is not wrong to say that Buddhism has embraced the theory of evolution from the start, which was about 2500 years ago.
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