I just don't understand it. It's a cool theory, but when think about it, it doesn't make any sense. For example: say humans really did evolve from monkeys or apes. Why did some of us evolve and other monkeys and apes stayed monkeys and apes. According to Darwin's survival of the fittest theory the weak either evolve or die. If the monkeys and apes evolved, that means that they were weak. Well why didnt they die. Confusing! Just doesn't make sense. I thinks it's a bunch of hogwash!
2006-09-05 17:14:11 · 10 answers · asked by here17now36 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
no! i mean...if weve evolved from monkeys...why are there still monkeys?
2006-09-05 17:20:11 · answer #1 · answered by lorieu 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Who's said humans evolved from monkeys? Do you really understand the Darwin's ideas or the concept of a common ancestor?
Take for example the dolphins and the killer wales(Orcas) or a lion and a tiger, do you really think God created this two animals separately or they have a common ancestor like the gorillas and the humans.? Or look at the African zebra and the common horses, why are this animals so similar? The "velocity" of evolution can be faster( in millions of years) in some species than in others. In humans an example of evolution are the wisdom tooth, the increment of the height in the last centuries and more important the evolution of the ideas in the mind.
If you want to know was is evolution in action just think on the flu or other virus and bacterias that are changing all the time and required new antibiotics to fight them.To understand this ideas make a subscription to National Geographic. Just for a start.
2006-09-05 17:50:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go back and read what Darwin said instead of what you read here on Yahoo. The point Darwin made was that animals that are best equipped to survive will have the greatest likelihood to pass on their genetic material. Dubbed "Survival of the Fittest." Don't think this is going on now with humans? Go visit an Aztec ruin in New Mexico. While you are their notice the doorways. Why are they only about 5' high? Because that is how tall people were back then. Actually, they were even shorter. You meet someone today who is 4'6" and you'd call him a midget. Back then everyone was 4'6". Why isn't everyone 4'6" now? Because if you were bigger and stronger, you were more likely to live long enough to pass on your genetic code.
There is a moth that lives in England that is in about every Biology textbook I have ever seen. Samples of this moth exist from pre-industrial revolution. The moth was almost entirely white. Add some soot from the smoke stacks and about 100 years, those moths are now speckled with bits of black. Why? Because they were less likely to get eaten if they had a little camouflage and those that had black speckles lived long enough to breed.
Bottom line, read a book. You might learn something more than what some religious fanatic posts on a message board.
2006-09-05 17:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by daspook19 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the problem is that you aren't informed. You are trying to spread your disbelief rather than having a question answered. Anyone who devoted more than 30 seconds to the subject would realize that humans did not evolve from apes but rather a common ancestor. All species have a place in the food chain and in the life cycle of others. A spider may seem insignificant to you or I but to birds it's a source of food and it helps control other insect populations. A species that contributes and is not affected by external factors continues survival.
2006-09-05 17:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by bamjam630 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get your facts straight: Humans NEVER evolved from monkeys and apes. Rather, monkeys, apes, and humans evolved from the same ancestors.
So yes, evolution DOES make sense when you actually know what it is.
2006-09-05 17:21:51 · answer #5 · answered by Creative Name 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sample this:
mankind first made cart pulled by cows, then chariots pulled by horses, then cars run by steam engine, then diesel, then petrol, gasoline and now electricity.
so u c, dats da evolution of cars.. if we still make a cart today, we can use it. but if we make a petrol car 50 yrs from now, it wont b of any use coz fossil fuel will be over by then.. so basically fossil-fuel cars will not b fit for survival then.
same is da case with man n apes.. both are fit for survival in da current environmental conditions, so "survival of the fittest" doesnt fit in here..
however, it is notable that da common ancestors dat mankind & apes share is extinct today n not found.. i'm referrin to da earliest form of apes here..
again, who knows, maybe in da future da environmental conditions wud change n some of da current species will b extinct..
i hope i gave u a picture fair enough, if not clear enough.
2006-09-05 17:40:54 · answer #6 · answered by da_self 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimpanzee DNA strands match human DNA strands 94- 97% of the time.
The Bogobo Chimpanzee is the only other mammal, which has sex while facing its partner.
2006-09-05 17:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All it is, is a hope to find an answer to our existance. Its a bunch of none provable thories. To put it to an extreme, some people would grow a third arm just so they could do more, but you don't ever see that.
2006-09-05 17:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by michael o 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it is a bunch of bs. There is no definitive proof. Darwin accually renounced his theory on his death bed.
2006-09-05 17:20:48 · answer #9 · answered by nighthawk8713 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Makes sense to me...it'll make even more sense when I get my degree in anthropology! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
2006-09-05 17:17:05 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋