Ok, this is really bugging me.?

Question

I just saw this question that was asked. "If you say man has evolved from primates, why are there still primates?".

So let’s find out. How many people out there don't know that human beings ARE primates?

Answer 1

Speaking from a strictly scientific point of view, yes we are primates. Humans have been grouped in the same family as apes, chimps, monkeys, and whatever other primate you want to add to that list. The evolution of humans from primates is another issue altogether.

Answer 2

Science can say whatever it wants. I do not belong in any class that is linked to gorillas, lemurs, etc. I don't care if it has to do with bone structure, or why ever else they put us in a class with gorillas. All I know is that I am not a primate. I don't just sit around and do things based on animal instincts, my brain is capable of all sorts of things. I can go to school and get an education, I can go to church every Sunday and praise God, I can decide what music to listen to and why, I don't just construct a tool for eating instead I can decide if I want take out,fine dining, or food at home. I am not an ape! I don't waste my time asking the primate question because I know that I was created by God.

Answer 3

There are many, many good arguments against evolution. There are many, many bad ones that actually raise no question at all (except for as to the intelligence of the asker). This falls in the second category.

However, you raise an interesting question... Are we primates?

Of course, the current scientifically acceptable answer is yes.
But who decides what falls into which category? Any such classifications are arbitrary. Bats used to be classified as birds, now they are classified as mammals. Dolphins and whales used to be classified as fish, now they too are classified as mammals. Is either classification wrong? No. Such classifications are man made categories to help us make more sense of the world around us.

As far as the scientific community is currently concerned, we are primates. However, many Christians object to being put in such a category. In fact, many Christians object to being classified as animals, believing that we have something special, something unique that separates us from the animal kingdom. While the question the guy was asking was a pointless one anyway, perhaps it is from such a viewpoint that he was coming from.

Well, that was my deep thought for the day!

Answer 4

In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem. More formally, the niche includes how a population responds to the abundance of its resources and enemies (e. g., by growing when resources are abundant, and predators, parasites and pathogens are scarce) and how it affects those same factors (e. g., by reducing the abundance of resources through consumption and contributing to the population growth of enemies by falling prey to them). The abiotic or physical environment is also part of the niche because it influences how populations affect, and are affected by, resources and enemies.

Different species can hold similar niches in different locations and the same species may occupy different niches in different locations. The Australian grasslands species, though different from those of the Great Plains grasslands, occupy the same niche. Once a niche is left vacant, other organisms can fill into that position. For example, the niche that was left vacant by the extinction of the tarpan has been filled by other animals (in particular a small horse breed, the konik). When plants and animals are introduced into a new environment, they can occupy the new niches or niches of native organisms, outcompete the indigenous species, and become a serious pest.

Monkeys and humans occupy different ecological niches and so are able to coexist.

Answer 5

It's really funny. The ignorance is very impudent. Yes I'm a primate that's the true, but a lot of religious fundamentalist can't accept it.

Answer 6

LOL. It's because they don't understand (or want to understand) evolution, they don't understand that primate DOES NOT ONLY EQUAL MONKEY, and, for some unknown reason, they have this horrible fear of being equated with animals. Despite Bible verses to the contrary....I guess they don't read their Bibles though, or they'd know what Solomon had to say about it.

It's like some weird thing that kicks into them - "NUH-UH! I'M NOT A MONKEY! I DON'T CARE IF I SHARE 99.8% OF MY DNA WITH CHIMPANZEES! I'M A HOOMAN!"

Answer 7

Ignorance and faith should never go together, the Christian religion makes people act decent to each other, so that's cool, evolution is a proven fact, so that's cool. But ignoring a biological inevitability because of your faith is way uncool. By the way, I knew that humans are primates.

monkeys are funny

Answer 8

I don't know who wouldn't know that. Primates=Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans.

Answer 9

Because they branched off differently, like humans having different races in different regions. Creatures, living organisims need to change to adapt to the different environments so they can survive.

Answer 10

Yeah, we is primate.