Humans did not originate from monkeys. All humans alive today share a common ancestor with new world monkeys dating back over 35 million years ago. A chimp is not a monkey, by the way. Chimps and humans share a common ancestor as recent as 6 million years ago.
2006-07-27 09:10:57
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answered by TechnoRat60 5
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Your premise is incorrect. People didn't originate from monkeys.
People and monkeys both developed from a common ancestor. That ancestor had some monkey-type characteristics and some human-type characteristics, but was not either one. It's a very common misconception, which usually leads to, "If people came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around?" The answer is, We didn't.
Second, we are all Africans. Human development (whether you think it evolved or was created ex nihilo) started in the same region. All humans developed from the same small group, which was either in NE Africa or present-day Iraq.
We're all related by extension, which is why we're all humans.
2006-07-27 09:07:24
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answered by Trips 3
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We didn't originate from monkeys. The earliest human may have had monkey characteristics but they are a whole diffrent species. I suggest you take a look at Primate taxonomy to clarify. All humans are said to have originated from Africa. Also we are all one species and there is no such thing as race within Homosapiens (which we are)...it's just skin complexion due to what climate our ancestors adapted to.
2006-07-27 12:05:30
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answered by Andyr 2
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All humans originated in Africa, so yes, all humans. Then they migrated around the world, then the specific races developed as a result of adaptation to the different environments. The ones best suited to life in a certain area survived to make babies there.
2006-07-27 09:37:28
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answered by lrad1952 5
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All human beings come from the monkeys, but the americans, europeans and asians come from the africans, which come from the monkeys, so basically we come from africans.
2006-07-27 09:18:38
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answered by giulim 2
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Yes, we all originated in Africa. But we share a common ancestor with apes.
So when you ask "only the Africans," you are basically asking, "only human beings" and the answer is yes. We are all Africans back a few generations. (This can easily be proven genetically.)
2006-07-27 09:34:53
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answered by LazlaHollyfeld 6
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I like how everyone always uses yahoo.answers to make their racist remarks and ask racist questions. If we did come from monkeys it would be everyone,not just africans. The only reason why we are "black" is because of different pigmentation that comes from different mixes of culture.
2006-07-27 09:10:46
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answered by Nakeya J 3
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So yet another bunch of fantasy peddlers. None of them carry any validity. We do recognize the place human beings come from and there's a huge scientific physique of information. in case you opt for to ignore approximately it then you are doomed to lack of understanding. i ought to have faith that my automobile is fairly pulled via invisible horses, i ought to have faith that the folk on the television are all midgets performing there, i ought to have faith that 2+2 = 5 yet i do no longer, i think that fact is the desirable issue to have faith in. answer those: Why do human beings discover it hard to settle for we are animals while each and every component persons is animal? Why do human beings discover it hard to settle for the super physique of information for evolution? Why do human beings opt to herald better terrestrial beings to describe what's clearly basically evolution. Intelligence is between the continence matters. Chips have an extremely severe intelligence, no longer as powerful as ours. it ought to no longer be the comparable as ours yet it extremely is using the fact we live in very distinctive environments.
2016-12-14 15:02:00
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answered by raina 4
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Oh nice...another question that had some real promise until read in full.
Idiot. Go back and man the gas pumps hillbilly..there are customers waiting.
2006-07-27 09:06:55
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answered by Quasimodo 7
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no one descended from monkeys...we have common ancestors with the apes (not mokeys) ...hominids (which you are) branced off from apes about 8 million years ago
2006-07-27 10:38:06
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answered by Anonymous
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