If man evolved from apes why didn't ducks evolve into duck people?

Answer 1

Because Ant Farms.

Answer 2

Because a duck evolved from a different genetic cycle. Maybe they will in a few million years. Ever see "Howard the Duck?"

(funny flick)

Evolution is merely the process of gradual genetic mututation. This is still happening today (why do we have an appendix when it doesn't do anything?) with many species. When mutated animals mate, they pass on the new genetic material.

Mutation is random and unpredictable. That's why humans have evolved into different races, because mutations for color of hair, skin, etc. were geographically localized - people bred within their region. Now that we are a global society, these variation are expected to largely meld into more or less one race.

Not every mass of cells is going to mutate the same way or at the same speed. This is why there are many varieties of monkeys and apes and why humans can be genetic relatives and still a different species.

Incidentally..to those that say evolution is bull, there is actual fact to support almost all of the "theory." Documented, falsifiable (a necessity for something to be scientific) fact.

Answer 3

There are differences in environments. Also, evolution has no specific goal in mind- if history were to start over, there's a great chance humans wouldn't be around.
Our apelike ancestors just happened to be in the "right place at the right time" (so to speak).
There's always a possibility that ducks could still evolve into duck people.

Answer 4

Evolution is not a destination, it's a journey. Assuming that just because people are most successful and intelligent that we are the pinnacle of evolution is a fallacy. Ducks are perfectly evolved for their environment.

This question is just as valid: if ducks evolved from fish why didn't people evolve into flying aquatic people?

Answer 5

It is a misstatement to say that man evolved from apes. That is not what evolutionary theory states. Modern day apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor that was neither ape nor human. The apes we see today are our cousins, not our ancestors. Going back even farther in the evolutionary chain, we find that duck and humans and apes trace their ancestry back to another common ancestor, so in that respect humans are related to ducks, as well as to every other living thing.

Answer 6

95% of all species are extinct. Some evolve into other species. Would you believe dinosaurs evolved into birds? In time ducks may become duck people but evolution can take millions of years.

Answer 7

Ducks still have scales on their legs,like chickens and turkeys and most all birds.Could you think they would be related to lizards or even dinosaurs?We have 98% the same DNA as primates.If God did this seems like a cruel joke to me.Beside I think the ducks felt better being on our table for dinner.Being more useful to help us evolve with there protein.I don't think duck people would taste to good anyways.

Answer 8

How do you know ducks don't evolve into duck people? A thousand years later maybe yes. But its purely coincidential. If ducks evolve into giving birth then you will ask "why do ducks evolve into giving birth?". If ducks evolve into only swimming then you will ask "why do ducks evolve into swimming and not giving birth?".

Answer 9

Haven't you ever seen that movie Howard the Duck?? And then there was the pig boy that Kramer saw on Seinfeld. Then of course there is Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Those are just a few samples of how "real" the theory of evolution is.

Answer 10

Some animals are a genetic dead end. Ducks don't have large enough brains. But you could read David Brin's Uplift Wars for an interesting science fiction story about various animals that were uplifted to human level.

Answer 11

because they evolved from something else, give it a couple of million years and maybe they will evolve into duck people.