If man evolved from apes, why are there still apes but no dodos?

Question

I think the evidence speaks for itself.

Answer 1

I agree...men didn't come from apes!

Answer 2

Dodos became extinct due to excessive hunting. The reason that humans bear a huge genetic resemblance to apes is because we share a common ancestor. Apes are still around because they flourished as they were wherever they were for the last couple thousand years. Evolution is the product of Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Evolution is actually the accumulation of mutations. If the ape ancestors found themselves in a more hostile environment where the was only enough resources for a few, they would battle it out, (thus the stronger survived) or if some other calamity occur ed, like disease, only those with the mutation of the anti-body would survive. Then the stronger survivors would would have offspring and thus the mutation would become the the new norm.
Here's a more modern example:
During the black plague, a small town in Northern England was struck by the disease. Some survived with out so much as a cough while everyone else perished around them. Despite being exposed over and over, the select few survived. The reason? A genetic mutation named Delta 32. This genetic boo-boo kept the plague virus for entering the cells. Now, most everyone in the town possesses the gene delta 32, because only the survivors with that mutation lived to repopulate the area.
Human are still mutating. Ever been to a home from the colonial era? the average male hieght was around 5' 7-9". Washington was roughly 6 feet. That's the average male hieght today, but then he was mentioned as "towering".

And in all of this there is scientific and archological evidence. Whether it was by chance or by divine will, who knows. But Adam and Eve didn't just pop up one day form a dirt pile. Never take a theologic document completely literally.

Answer 3

If I came from my grandmother, then why do I have cousins? There were apes like creatures in many parts of the world, many groups were isolated. Some of these groups had mutations (evolution). In some areas these mutations were helpful in survival, so the ape like creatures with these mutations were the ones in that area that survived. These are rules to evolution. The family tree split, some became apes, and some (us) kept mutating (evolving), until we came to where we are today. The evidence does speak for itself, chimps have almost 100% DNA match to humans. The fact is this can only happen, if we are related. Dodos just went extinct from hunting. If you do want to know where we came from, there are some books by Darwin you can read.

Answer 4

Man did not evolve from apes. They shared a single common ancestor and on the evolution tree monkeys and apes went left and humans went right. Because if man had evolved from apes then why are there still apes around? Shouldn't they all be humans. And as for the dodo's they went extinct because they used to live on uninhabitated islands until Portugese and Spanierds landed on the islands and killed Dodo's and poached their eggs for food.

Answer 5

It saddens me that people didn't get this one.
People say that the evidence against evolution is that there are still unevolved apes as if all apes would have to become extinct for humans to have evolved, using similar logic, since there are no dodos then man must have evolved from dodos.

Maybe my question was flawed.

Answer 6

This is simple:

1) Man did not evolve from apes; the great apes and man had a common ancestor. Big difference.

2) There are no dodos because European explorers killed them off.

Answer 7

There are different types of apes and monkeys. Perhaps we have evolved from something that no longer exists. And evolution is dependent on environment, so maybe there were a group of apes from a particular area that needed to evolve in order to survive.

Answer 8

We didn't evolve from apes ... we evolved from earlier versions of humans. While we were busy doing this the modern apes were also busy evolving from earlier versions of themselves.

The Dodo has zero relevance to any of this.

Answer 9

Because we did not eveolve from apes. It's easier for scientifics to invent some stupid story like we came from apes than to investigate the real origin of human existence.... Its too deep, too ancient the y can't answer that question.

Answer 10

Because Evolution is a "theory" that scientists came up because they didn't like the God Myth, and thought that evolution gives a scientific explanation to the question of how did we get here, but there in no more evidence to support it, than there is to support the God myth, people just feel more comfortable with some type of answer.

Answer 11

the dodos were killed off by humans thats y. and moths evolved from butterflys(or is it the other way around? im not sure) and there are still butterflys.