I just had this question pop up in my head: if an alien society were to watch Earth and try to piece together how we all evolved, without the knowledge of how evolution on Earth works, what animals would they likely think Humans are related to?
Some are obvious, like dogs, parrots/corvids and obviously apes.
Dogs are literally parts of our families, we are both endurance hunters and dogs and humans are some of the few animals on Earth that have jobs in human society.
Parrots and Corvids are pretty smart, can mimic speech and can use tools.
Apes obviously look the closest and also are very smart and can use tools.
But the one I find most interesting, would be the idea that they think we are distantly related to spiders.
Primarily because of the fact that humans and spiders LOVE webs/nets.
There are the obvious physical nets like fishing nets or nets to transport stuff in, but also the "invisible" ones, like the power grid, streets and the world wide WEB.
There are probably countless other web-like structures we humans use that I can't think of right now, but aside from humans and spiders (and maybe plants, with their root systems) there are few beings that use webs as much as we do.
Another really fun one are the eusocial insects, specifically termites and ants. There are few animals that focus as heavy on building structures as ants, termites and humans. So there's a good argument to be made that, to alien life that has no idea of evolution on Earth, we might look distantly related too.
It's a fun exercise to think about nature less in the biological sense, but a philosophical one. Not "what looks the same", but rather "what uses similar survival philosophies.".