monkeys and humans?

Question

evolution if humans came from aps why did it stop or is there a queue or are we still evolving if so what will we become

Answer 1

We are still evolving, but who knows what we will become. Most children these days don't get wisdom teeth. Why? because we don't need them anymore and our bodies are evolving. Feet are also getting smaller because we don't need them like we used to (like for chasing down dinner) and because we keep them bound up in shoes all day which makes them weaker.

Answer 2

There is very little connection between monkeys and humans. Humans and apes evolved from a shared ape relative not a monkey, they are completely different animals! We are still evolving, that is all that creatures really do! it is unavoidable, from bacteria all the way up to the most superior creature on the planet (cats, of course, just look into their eyes!). Maybe the next great leap forward for humans will be mental development - finding a way to overcome the 'need' for religion and just getting on with each because it's better than blowing each other to sh!? We don't need adam and eve, and actually the first woman was Lilith if you know anything, we just need to shoot any body of any religion and the rest of us can just agree to have a beer, watch some Scrubs and get on. I hope that's the next step in evolution.

Answer 3

Okay here's my twopenneth worth.

Our closest living relative is the chimpanzee 99 point something percent of our genes match, therefore we have undoubtedly a common ancestor.

Our pre-human ancestors lived in the rain forests but as foragers and gatherers we were pretty crap and we weren't as agile in the trees as the other apes and monkeys; consequence?

Survival of the fittest; we got booted out of the forests about three million years ago, where all the juicy fruits, berries, vegetation, insects and the like were in abundance.

So there we were still on all fours, probably still with tails, on the edge of the biggest larder on the planet and we couldn't go back.

What lay ahead? Open savannah and grasslands, little in the way of food, shelter and large flesh eating animals. Lions. sabre tooth tigers and the like.

We faced extinction, forget 'Independence Day,' this was for real. We were weak, puny and slow, ill equipped to survive in an alien and hostile environment.

So how did we manage it? What happened that turned this 'Wouldn't put any money on this lot surviving' species into the top predator on the planet, the most successful species ever to evolve?

Quite simply meat, on the one hand we started to stand on our hind legs, just like the meercats do today, so we could see further and warn our small isolated groups of any approaching danger. On the other hand our ancestors could see how the big cats, hyenas, vultures etc survived, by eating meat.

Like chimpanzees today we had already learned the art of using sticks and stones to get food otherwise inaccessible to us. But how do you catch an antelope or any other creature that moves so much faster than we did?

The same way the chimps do today in the wild when catching small monkeys in the trees. We ambushed them driving them into the hands of others in the group?

Why was meat so important? One word, protein, more than anything else it is protein that fuels the brain and unlike the other meat eaters we already had some kind of limited intellect as does the chimps and other apes.

Suddenly (in evolutionary terms) our brains began to develop at a phenomenal rate as we adapted to our new environment, but just as importantly we began also to migrate, perhaps at some unconscious level, searching for another larder like the one we left behind. And with each new journey we had to learn new skills.

There is a school of thought today that all babies are born premature because the womb has not evolved at the same rate as the brain (thank goodness!) and consequently the cranium too, therefore the baby has to force its way out before its head becomes too large.

Hence the unique situation where only women feel pain in childbirth, which is after all a natural and universal constant in all mammals.

As for what we will become? I'll have to leave that for another time.

Answer 4

Evolution occurs over time. We ARE STILL evolving! There are even evolutionary differences between cultures. For example some island based culture evolved the ability to store fat over time. This was the result of constant long trips by boat.

Another stage evolutionary fact is that some whales still have remands of hind legs bones which are now absorbed into there torso and no longer visible. Millions of years ago the ancestors of whales use to walk on land!

As humans continue to evolve some scientists believe we will become physically smaller and our brain case will become larger as we become smarter an do less physical labor.

Answer 5

What do you mean stopped? Have you looked around at the different kinds of humans? People from africa and the middle east are usually darker than euro people, because the pigment is better for the skin in long periods of sun. Most humans have features that reflect their habitat from oily skin, to dry, greasy hair, and so forth. Humans as a whole however can be traced back to mesopotamia in Asia. Thats right, we all can be traced to one "Race" scientificly.

So to say that evolution has stopped or never occured is silly. It just takes alot longer than some people can grasp or care to think about.

Answer 6

OK, you need to do some more research. No one, especially Darwin, ever claimed humans evolved from apes. This was a commonly spread rumor about Darwin's research by several religious groups at the time. I have read both Darwin's "Origin of Species", and "Descent of Man", and no where does he claim that humans evolved from apes! He clearly states that they are two seperate species which may have had a common anscestor, and are currently evolving as seperate species. Don't believe what people tell you, read the books instead.

Answer 7

We are still evolving, we have just become more evolved humans.

For example, many years ago the average life span of a human beings was only 30 years.

Answer 8

(1) it didn't stop, it never will. In some species the niche fits so well that it stabilises for a long time (tiger? shark?) but it never really stops.
(2) queue? there is no queue
(3) we really don't know, and can't possibly know. We may evolve our adaptation to our diet somewhat to cope better with less nutritious foodstuffs; that may be the first change.

Answer 9

monkeys are monkeys and they will always be monkeys. they do not change into something else, and a human is a human. i know thats what they teach in the schools nowadays but it is wrong. if the teacher is telling you that,.evolution, why then are no fossials can be found for the inbetween from monkey to humans,.and dont worry you will always be a humanbeing. and you wont change into something else. and that i know for a fact.

Answer 10

Evolution doesn't stop and we humans will evolve into whatever we need to survive in the future.