If apes evolved into humans then why are there still apes?

Question

There is no partial species evolution. Or is there? Hmmmmm.... makes you think doesn't it? I have heard that we did not come from the modern apes, but this is just theory and conjucture?
I believe in both creation and evolution-to an extent. Why couldn't God do what he wanted? I am sure that he could have done many things that are not written in the bible. Some things he may not want us to even know about.

Answer 1

I questioned that also..but I don't believe we as people evolved from apes. I have wondered occassionally about dinosaurs and the fossils scientists have found, although there isn't anything about dinos in the bible.I strongly believe in the Bible and everything within it. There's just some things we shouldn't question(although it does make u wonder).

Answer 2

Imagine a tree with many branches. The trunk rises from the ground, then a bit up from the ground, the first branching begins. However, the trunk still grows upward, perhaps splitting into various other branches, limbs, twigs, etc., but nonetheless still growing.

All life started at the base of the trunk. Over time various species got separated because of some environmental factor from the others. These are the branches. Single celled algae eventually did not disappear, but some of them broke off and became more complex plants because it gave that group an evolutionary/environmental advantage.

The branching continued, and sometimes there were mass extinctions, where upwards of 90% of the existing species were wiped out by some environmental calamity. The survivors rebounded, and the evolutionary process continued.

Then a few hundred thousand years ago, a group of apes that were separated from the others developed genetic quirks (branched from the tree), and these mutations allowed them to produce more offspring in the environment where they lived. Over time the hominids evolved further into homo sapiens. The branches with the other apes continued, each modifying to succeed in the environments they inhabited.

From our perspective it's a painstakingly slow process. Just like plate tectonics....infinitesimally small changes continuing over a barely imaginably long time eventually lead to the continental lay out we know today or the species that exist on the planet. Each species is a winner, none better suited than any other, because each has overcome the immense odds that led to the extinction of most species. We are each sitting at the tip of our particular branch (and in the future, that branch will likely split again).

It's really quite a marvelous process, and I stand in wonder at the amount of time and the sheer luck that brought all of us to this moment when we can begin to understand some of the way things seem to have happened. There's so much more to learn, to observe, to make sense of, and we'll all die before we're much further along. But the perspective gained makes me giggle.

Answer 3

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 4

Let's say you have a group of 10 apes, or ape-like animals of some kind. If a genetic mutation occurs in 4 of them and they reproduce, they could evolve into a new species. The remaining 6 apes would continue to produce more apes.
Another example: if a large group of animals gets split into 2 groups because of migration, a big storm, etc, the groups could eventually evolve into 2 different species.

Answer 5

first of all we did not evolve from apes. We and the apes stepped forward from a common ancestor. Which became probably very very reminiscent of an ape. Secondly, apes are nonetheless evolving! Given time, hundreds of thousands of years, they might evolve into extra clever beings! some human beings used to think of black human beings in Africa have been evolving apes, yet not as some distance stepped forward as us. (No kidding! they actually did! This became a justification for slavery.) some species have been around for 1000's and 1000's of years without changing in any respect. Alligators and crocodiles, case in point, have been in simple terms the comparable through fact the time of the dinosaurs. So why did not they evolve? there's a factor of evolutionary thought referred to as 'punctuated equilibrium' that explains why component to a inhabitants evolves and section does not. the way it works (in accordance to the belief) is that a inhabitants of animals evolves to verify their environment. whilst they do, they end changing through fact they are 'completely' stepped forward for their environment. Then some team of those animals go away that environment--case in point, the valley the place they stay is crowded so as that they migrate over the hills into the subsequent valley. the ambience there is diverse, so those few of those animals who're extra suited ideal to the recent environment have an benefit, so as that they they start evolving returned until they as quickly as extra attain 'equilibrium' with their new environment. So now you have 2 species, or subspecies, the place in the previous you had basically one. if reality be told this became what led Darwin to this thought interior the 1st place. He visited the Galapagos Islands the place each and each island had a particularly diverse form of turtles, birds, etc., through fact the environments of those islands have been all a splash diverse. meanwhile those crocodiles, who've been in equilibrium with their environment for all this time, have not replaced plenty in 40 million years, through fact their environment hasn't replaced!

Answer 6

All us apes - humans, chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangs, have a common ancestor - not really an ape but had branched off monkeys. (yes we even have a common ancestor with monkeys as well - just further back) As opportunities allowed some ventured in to different habitats some had better characteristics that allowed them to live there and eventually they evolved in to whatever ape form fit that habitat. The group that let to chimps and humans split quite a bit after the others, and chimps are our closest relatives, but we are all apes. Just in different forms.

Answer 7

The apes you see today are our cousins, not our ancestors. Of all the members of the species of ancient ape that included the ancestors of all humans, only a few (literally, probably just one tribe) is the ancestor of all humans. Others evolved into different forms of modern apes, and a substantial number died off.

Answer 8

Apes, that is a funny word that is misunderstood by so many. Man never evolved from an ape. Ape is just the name of a group of primates. We evolved from a lower primate, but that primate was not classified as an ape. Just like a chimpanzee is not an ape, and those who do not believe that we are primates would be like denying that we are mammals too.

Answer 9

An evolutionist would argue that all the species on earth are a unique collection of life that evolved from inferior models. But if the inferior models are good enough to survive and dont have a predator that is capable of making them extinct, then theoretically they could be around forever.

Little do they know that God created everything there is and want them to quit denying him!

Answer 10

Humans did not come from apes ,they were created by the Anunaki as slaves to mine gold for them.(the Adams race)
by cloning and genetic engineering
Neanderthal ,cro magno,homo erectus .etc.were mistrials and were results of their experiments .
they all lived at the same time .and in the same pace near the oldest gold mines on this planet

the oldest part in our brains the reptilian brain is a left over of the Anunaki who were a reptilian extraterrestrial race that inter bred with the Nordics (blue eye or green eyed,people with blond or red hair.)
you will find references to the Anunaki in all ancient civilizations from .Atlantis ,Ur,Mu ,Babylon ,Macedonia ,China ,India ,Africa to the Central Americas the Olmec.

all have serpents,snakes or dragons in the origin of their legends
the rainbow snake of the Aborigines,the feathered serpent of the Central Americans ,the Earth mother snake of the amazon.the Dragons in Europe ,China ,India etc.including the serpent in the bible
and reptile means Anunaki

the bible is a mindcontrolling tool for the Illuminati ,the descendants of the Nephilim(see Genesis)who in turn descended from the Nordics and Anunaki.
to control and manipulate the Adams race descendants