2006-07-12 15:01:01 · 13 answers · asked by capt_yah000 2 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
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2006-07-12 15:04:05 · answer #1 · answered by Molly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before I answer, I need to clarify a misconception that many people have: homo sapiens sapiens (human beings nowadays) did not evolve from any apes we find alive today. Instead, we evolved from apes that are extinct. Possibly, there were ancient apes that were the common ancestors of human beings and other modern apes. We are far cousins to other modern apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas. If we trace our genealogical trees thousands of generations backwards, we will find that we share a pair of great great great... grand parents with the apes.
It took thousands (or more) of generations for ancient apes to evolve into humans. Changes across one generation are minute. There is no boundary in the single-generation level for us to identify the transition from ancient apes to humans. Let's take an example:
Suppose Generation 1 (G1) is a kind of ancient apes and Generation 1000 (G1000) is Darwin. G2 to G999 are all intermediate forms. We cannot say G499 is apes and then they evolved into humans in G500. Neither can the boundary be set at any other generations.
So your question is invalid. I guess you are trying to say: for ancient apes to evolve into humans, there must have been two "first" humans (one male, one female) who copulated to produce the next humans. But this is a misunderstanding of evolution. It is impossible to identify which intermediate generation is the "first" humans.
Paleontologists always hope that the fossil record can be more complete, but the discontinuous record is, in a sense, a bless for taxonomy. Had all the intermediate forms been fossilized (assume the Earth is resourceful enough to hold them all), it would be difficult to classify the species, since we wouldn't know where to cut them apart. Should we say G[One Billion] to G[Two Billion] are dinosaurs, or G[One Billion and Five] to G[Two Billion and One Hundred]?
2006-07-17 07:59:17 · answer #2 · answered by Wai Fung Tong 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, apes don't evolve into humans. I don't get it what would make a sane person think that apes evolved into humans? If this were true, apes would be evolving into humans to this day, this very hour.
2006-07-12 22:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by jeb_oi812 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is completely impossible. It wasn't as if apes ever just "poof" magically turned into humans all at once. It was a gradual process in which over many generations they slowly evolved.
2006-07-12 22:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by budunkydunk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't work that way.
You can't mutate into something.
But lets say you have 4 eyes but your mate doesn't.
Generations of your species live and die.
Now in the species you have people with 4 and 2 eyes and the ones with 4 eyes have a better chance of living, so they only mate with people who have 4 eyes.
The people with 2 eyes die off. Now everyone has 4 eyes they passed it on from generation to generation.
YOU HAVE TO BE BORN WITH A MUTATION to pass it on to the next generation.
This is a bad example, but non the less you should understand how it works.
2006-07-12 22:18:58 · answer #5 · answered by psych0bug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a poorly structured question.
The two apes would not evolve. They would die.
The subsequent generations of offspring COULD evolve thousands of generations. The chances that humans would be somewhere on the evolutionary chain are very, very, very slim.
2006-07-12 22:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by james h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zero
2006-07-12 22:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
O%
everyone knows apes devolved from humans!
2006-07-12 22:05:10 · answer #8 · answered by amber addiction 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
evolution didn't just "proof" happen..it was gradual. For example, an ape would be born with less hair, and that gene would be passed on to that ape's children and then new traits would develop, and they'd be passed on, and so on, and so forth...until you have present day homosapiens.
2006-07-12 22:06:57 · answer #9 · answered by JillieBoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one (to the best of my knowlege) has ever said that. Darwin didn't.
2006-07-12 22:05:10 · answer #10 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋