I hope you brought your imagination?
Suppose you have to believe in evolution, but you can choose what animal to evolve from. You choose any animal & you still evolve into human. Everyone who's ever taken biology knows this is totally hypothetical, but still cool. Any animal. Nope no debate.
Ain't the platypus a messed up animal all together? That animal should be proof that animals can be multi-species, therefore evolution. Has mammel, bird, & marsupial qualities.
Why the long educated answer? Simple question, what animal would you have liked to evolve from, if you could choose?