Your Lord said to the angels, "I am placing a successor on earth." They said, "Would You place in it he who would corrupt it, and shed blood, while we sing Your glory, and praise You?" He said, "I know what you do not know."
Translation endnotes
[2:30] We may infer that Adam was the name of the new species created by God through evolution and he became the successor of a violent primate dominating the earth.