2006-08-20 10:39:37 · 10 answers · asked by james j 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Not really. Apes and humans have evolved at the same pace. We weren't around xxxxxxxxx years ago and neither were they. But we both came from the same species.
2006-08-20 10:45:37 · answer #1 · answered by moleman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ouch. Misconceptions ahoy (but don't feel bad, almost everyone gets this stuff wrong if they haven't studied it).
First, DNA can't really "prove" ethnic background -- they can say that you have certain genetic characteristics that fit with a certain population, but it's almost impossible to trace someone's lineage through DNA (every child has ~50% of each parent's DNA, and more random events can even make it so that you don't actually share any DNA with a great-grandparent). It's one thing to check someone with "pure" lineage and confirm their heredity, but it's completely different to grab a random person from the United States (LOTS of genetic mixing) and try to ascertain their.
Second, humans are apes. This may seem like semantics to you, but we are in the primate classification. Along with that, we did not actually descend from chimpanzees, monkeys, gorillas, or orangutans (nor are they our descendents). We share a common ancestor -- that is, we're cousins. There is a lot of research (biological and anthropological) into those common ancestors, but we don't know really much about them (they've been gone for a couple of million years).
2006-08-20 17:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by Patrick 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure as soon as you can cite what page number in Darwin's Theory of Evolution that says we came from apes.
2006-08-20 17:47:10 · answer #3 · answered by Nerdly Stud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a matter of fact, sort of.
First off we didn't come from "Apes" as you think of them.
But genetic testing has determined there is a limited number of original "mothers"(18) and "fathers"(10).
And it can tell us from where geographically our genetics came from in some cases.
2006-08-20 17:50:58 · answer #4 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We "came from" the last common ancestor of us and chimpanzees.
2006-08-20 17:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
may be in future but not at present time
2006-08-20 17:45:01 · answer #6 · answered by doon19462000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well considering that the speicies that we evolved from nolonger exists I doubt that.
2006-08-20 17:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by chupakabra123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess we will find out soon enough.
2006-08-20 17:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by Isis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and which space aliens it mated with
2006-08-20 17:45:21 · answer #9 · answered by HEY boo boo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT YOU MEAN "WE", CHEETA?
2006-08-20 17:47:48 · answer #10 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋