is it true that people come from monkeys?

Answer 1

if you ask it that way....

Answer 2

We are more closely related to the apes than to monkeys (no they are not the same thing).

Having said that, you have to keep in mind that evolution happens to an overall species not to individuals or within few generations. Its not that one day an ape suddenly gave birth to a human.

Also, evolution is not a single stream linear process. It branches out a lot and there were a lot of parallel threads of evolution happening at the same time not genetically linked to each other. (that’s why some people have a hard time deciding where to fit birds to the picture because in a way they are more advanced than us because we can't fly, but they don't do so well if we play chess against them)

As for people who think evolution is just a theory that God tried to fool us to believe by magically creating fossils and bones under the ground, I say you should find everything else God wanted you to know a bit suspicious as well.

And what has all this got to do with Celebrities? Oh, Mr. King Kong says it’s ok.

Answer 3

The theory of evolution is often misunderstood, and therefore misquoted as saying that human kind evolved from the monkeys and apes we see today.

An argument claiming the above would be making the logical fallacy of 'building a straw man'. That's where one would try to convince you that an statement is saying something that is actually is not, and then disproving what he/she believes it to say.

So it is NOT true that people 'came from monkeys' BUT that does not automatically make the theory of evolution false! What evolutionary science says is that at some point long long ago, a single species of animal (one that was similar all primates and humans) split into two branches, one branch evolved into the monkeys and apes we see today (like chimps, gorillas, and spider monkeys) and the other branch evolved into the prehistoric ancestors of today's humans.

This is very simplified, but that is what the bare bones of the origins of humankind are believed to be according to what rational thought and science can tell us.

Answer 4

Humans are apes, descended from earlier apes. We didn't evolve from monkeys, but rather monkeys and apes had a common ancestor millions of years ago. Incidentally, the most obvious way to tell if something is an ape or a monkey is that monkeys have tails, and apes (such as humans) do not.

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

The way to understand our origins 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.

Answer 5

No this is not true. Man and Woman evolved from the Ape which is a far inferior species to the monkey

Answer 6

I do not believe it is true. I do not believe the THEORY of evolution. If scientists can some day prove this theory I may change my mind, but they have not done it so far.

The idea of it is repugnant (no offense to monkeys).

Answer 7

No, people do not come from monkeys. Humans and monkeys both evolved from similar or common ancestors.

Answer 8

The aquatic ape hypothesis (sometimes called the aquatic ape theory) proposes that the ancestors of humans went through one or more periods of time living in a semi-aquatic setting and that this history accounts for many of the characteristics of species in the Homo genus that are not seen in other primates, such as chimpanzees or gorillas. The theory, often referred to simply as AAT, has been poorly received in mainstream paleoanthropology.

AAT states that human ancestors evolved in warm and wet environments and gathered much of their food from shallow sea-, lake- or riverside environments through beach-combing, wading and diving for foods such as coconuts, bird's eggs, turtles, shell- and crayfish, part of reeds, papyrus and other aquatic plants. [citation needed] There are interpretations which propose fresh-water habitats (Ellis 1993), variations in the timescale (Verhaegen et al. 2002) and the proposed degree of selection arising from moving through water. The most popular formulation involves a semi-aquatic episode coinciding with the Pliocene-Pleistocene littoral diaspora of the Homo genus along the East-African Rift Valley lakes and the African and Indian Ocean coasts.

Answer 9

Yes and No! We come from a common source as do trees and fish. We are all related and have a rather close DNA. Only about 30% of your DNA describes you. The other 70% is about where you came from and that goes back to trees and the like. We are still evolving today, but you just can't see it because it is so gradual.

Answer 10

No, some people just act like animals, probably because they were told that they came from animals.

If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

Answer 11

I think people come from monkeys cause Charles Darwin said that, but in the Bible said that human was create by God, tow different theoryes i don't know what to belive.........