Non religious people do you'll believe that your ancestor was an ape?And then his grandson became human?

Question

Or was he a fish or turtle or the snake from Genesis who tempted Eve to do sin.If you can please help me with the evolution of humans and what are we gonna turn to after 100 years something like a reptile or fish???

Answer 1

I have a hard time believing that humans are descendents of apes. If we are, then why are they still around? Secondly, does that mean we are going to evolve into something else? NOT! That theory is total crap.

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Answer 2

Humans are apes. The most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

The way to understand this is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.

Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to reproduce).

However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

Hope this is a useful explanation.

Answer 3

First of all, like others are mentioning, evolution takes a really, really long time. This is a naive and facetious way to ask the question.

Secondly, it is unfortunately a common misconception that "our ancestors were apes". What the theory of evolution says is that we both have a common ancestor, and we both have evolved differently from that ancestor. That is why there are still apes around. It is not a chain of fish turning into monkeys that turn into people. Try to grasp the complexities of an argument before you start attacking straw men.

Answer 4

"Non-religous" people ? Uh, you left out a couple billion people who don't believe in the bible ! You might want to do some serious reading on evolution BEFORE you make ignorant posts. Evolution does'nt tell us we came from apes / monkeys. It says " common ancestor ". It was Christians who made up the non-sense about we came from monkeys. It's easy to put down something you know nothing about. You might also want to read some books on astronomy. Our universe is something like 13+ billion years old, and that's a FACT. There are stars so far away it takes millions of years just for the light from them to reach us. But if you want to believe in talking snakes that eat dust and 900 year old men, be my guest.

Answer 5

Evolution takes place everywhere if you really think about it. Humans have evolved as a species for hndreds of thousadnds of years. Just think about 20 years ago. Do you think that poeple 20 years ago thought that the computer would have this much of an impact on our lives? Or we would have this many cures for diseases that killed millions 100 years ago. Evolution is a process that takes a long time to happen.

Answer 6

Yep, my ancester was indeed an Ape, but my grandmother was a fish - hence the reason I spend all winter at the bottom of a pond.

Stupid question eh ? Show me some science that proved evolution is wrong and I listen, ask a stupidly proposed question and its a waste of time - not even entertaining.

In a hundred years time I'll be dead, whereas you may be dead and uneducated

Answer 7

DNA takes about 1-2 million years to change 1%.
Our DNA is 3% different from apes, so it took 3-6 million years for an ape to be a human.

Answer 8

What colossal ignorance. The process of evolution is a lot slower than that. We will not see any evolved changes in a single lifetime! We are not the children of apes, but of a common ancestor. Even today, chimpanzees are 99% similar to us in DNA-- how do YOU explain THAT?

Answer 9

My ancestors were newborn starry constellations from the Cosmos. I am, as Carl Sagan said, star stuff.

In millions of years humans will become something else, because evolution is an ongoing process. Of course some of them may stagnate where they are and remain, for example, creationist christians.

Answer 10

Your question seems to imply that one day all the primates started having these little pink, hairless babies and POOF the human race was established.....Evolution take generations upon generations. Todays primates (not monkeys) and humans have a COMMON ancestor. Which means that somewhere along the line one group evolved into primates and the other, due to natural genetic mutation, evolved into homosapiens and onward into modern humans.

Answer 11

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