If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys, whats a still monkey is that like i flunked biology?

Question

when people ask why is there still monkeys is that like, they ditched biology the day they explained the secrets of the universe to go smoke a cigarette or were they sick the day evolution was taught in class

why are there still monkeys? i hope you find out before its too late (and you know, you get another biology final at college or something)

Answer 1

They weren't outside grabbing a smoke, they were enveloped by the wondrous beauty and praying to the powers of Mother Nature.
Still monkeys are born full term, yet they are actually dead. That way they can be disected in biology class. Humans can be stillborn as well. That is why we are so alike.

Answer 2

People didn't evolve from monkeys per se. Monkeys and Humans evolved from a similar ancestor, and at some point in time they branched off into there own species. Kind of like a "Y" shaped road. Monkeys went one way and humans went another. Some people get confused as to the there are still monkeys because, most of the time one of the branches have dies off, but in the case of humans and primates there both still around leading some to believe that the evolutionary path is linear.

Answer 3

Man did NOT evolve from monkey's or there would be ape men running around. From the 1300's until now there has been no such recorded proof of men coming from monkey's. Go back to the egyptian period and you can see nothing came from there either. If this was fact documented study would have been able to prove it. Even now scientist are reconsidering their prior theories. Right now it's more belivable that two people had their children copulate until they populated the planet.. then we came from monkeys.

Just because there are physical similarites between us doesn't mean we came from them. It's as if your saying the great white came from a goldfish..

Answer 4

when the monkeys read 'The oranges of Species' they were shocked, and were frozen, paralyzed briefly. Because prior to this they had believed the world to be 10 years old and that it was created my a big sky monkey, that gave monkeys trees as a gift of love and the sky monkey had come to earth in baboon form and was killed by the gorillas for being a Nazi.

Answer 5

No, no, no, you're all misunderstanding because of a bad accent. It's not still monkeys, it's STEEL monkeys. Steel monkey is another term for a bulldozer. The reason bulldozers exist is because we haven't evolved enough yet to be able to move earth quickly enough.

Answer 6

Isn't a Still Monkey part of the Gibbon family?
And I think the actual name is "Stills Monkey" after Sir Geoffrey Still, the man who discovered them.

(note, the above is sarcastic humor, and not intended to be taken seriously...)

Answer 7

A still monkey was recently taken to a vetenary hospital, with a gunshot wound. The still monkey survived, news reports said, "still monkey survives difficult surgery, bullet is in her yet." I didn't know monkeys had a yet. Or were they refering to Yeti?

Answer 8

Don't listen to them. You did evolve from a monkey on a separate evolutionary chain from the rest of us. Don't feel bad though. I'm sure you have a really cool prehensile tail.

Answer 9

Man did not evolve from monkeys, there is no such thing as EVOLUITON! that is what's wrong with society today, always believing a lie instead of the truth.

God created man in his own image from dust read your Bible people, that is why our school systems are in such decay, because we have taken prayer out of schools, and instead of teaching them about God, we let all other untrue beliefs, theories or what ever come in to play, yet we call ourselves ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

Answer 10

man did not evolve from modernday monkeys we evolved from the same primates they did ...
Homo Sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man") is the scientific name for human beings. Homo Sapiens are a mammalian species of bipedal primates belonging to the family Hominidae (the great apes).[1] They have a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, and introspection. This, combined with an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make greater use of tools than any other species of animal.
Although humans appear relatively hairless compared to other primates, with notable hair growth occurring chiefly on the top of the head, underarms and pubic area, the average human has more hair on his or her body than the average chimpanzee. The main distinction is that human hairs are shorter, finer, and less colored than the average chimpanzee's, thus making them harder to see.[2]
The evolutionary history of the primates can be traced back for some 60 million years, as one of the oldest of all surviving placental mammal groups. Most paleontologists consider that primates share a common ancestor with the bats, another extremely ancient lineage, and that this ancestor probably lived during the late Cretaceous together with the last dinosaurs. The oldest known primates come from North America, but they were widespread in Eurasia and Africa as well, during the tropical conditions of the Paleocene and Eocene. With the beginning of modern climates, marked by the formation of the first Antarctic ice in the early Oligocene around 40 million years ago, primates went extinct everywhere but Africa and southern Asia. Fossil evidence found in Germany 20 years ago (Begun, Journal of Human Evolution, 2001) was determined to be about 16.5 million years old, some 1.5 million years older than similar species from East Africa. It suggests that the great ape and human lineage first appeared in Eurasia and not Africa. The discoveries suggest that the early ancestors of the hominids (the family of great apes and humans) migrated to Eurasia from Africa about 17 million years ago, just before these two continents were cut off from each other by an expansion of the Mediterranean Sea. Begun says that the great apes flourished in Eurasia and that their lineage leading to the African apes and humans - Dryopithecus - migrated south from Europe or Western Asia into Africa, where populations diverged into the lines leading towards great apes, gorillas and chimps (chimpanzees and bonobos). One of those lines eventually evolved into the ancestors of humans about six million years ago. The surviving tropical population, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Fayum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living primates - lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and the anthropoids, i.e. platyrrhines or New World monkeys, and catarrhines or Old World monkeys and the great apes and humans.