I people evolved from apes then why are there still apes?

Question

Also, why are we not continuing to evolve into something even more civilized?

Just a fun question!

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Answer 1

I consider myself as real as they come,i pride myself on my honesty, I treat people the way they treat me.I believe that no man is better than any other,we all came from vagina's'.I believe that human beings are insignificant in the big scheme of things eternal,we are carbon,we will all return to the earth from which we sprang.I believe in the reality that if anyone who is reading this takes a look around their present location.....EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SEE,EVERYTHING, all of it,even this computer.....all came,in material form,from this floating rock we call Earth,because nothing leaves,or arrives,it all came from beneath your feet,to me that is incredible....before us there was nothing but trees and rocks...oh yeah there was peace too.I believe that humans are a virus on this planet,and the planet fights us with hurricanes,tsunamis,volcano's',etc... I don't believe there is an afterlife,but I do believe that when we die our "spirit" remains here.To me a spirit is carbon.

Answer 2

This is such a tired, played out question. This is a religionists favorite argument against evolution and they always get quite smug when presenting it, as if they've stumped science with such a simple question.

The simple answer is humans didn't evolve from apes. We have a common ancestor which means a group evolved to become humans and another became apes. It's obviously much more complicated than that, but you get the idea.

Anyone who uses this as an argument against evolution is so ignorant of whats going on in the world of science that I almost feel embarrassed for the people who present it.

And to answer your second question, we are still evolving. It may not necessarily be into something more "civilized" though. Not to worry anyway. We'll be long gone before noticeable differences are apparent in humans anyway.

Answer 3

Darwin's theory of evolution does not say that we evolved from apes. It basically seeks to examine and explain the fact of diversification that occurs with life and the changes that occur over generations in relation to environmental factors. Regarding the apes, the theory is that there was a common ancestor which developed various branches. Some of them are genetically very closely related to us, others less so. That is a fact. As to exactly why we share 99% of our DNA with certain species of apes -- that's still under discussion.

Regarding the common and misguided concept of what evolution is (that we evolved from apes) if gorillas, for example, had developed to the point that their intellect would enable them to philosophise and speak about their concepts as we do, they might wonder if we 'humans' (as we call ourselves) developed from them -- especially if we were nowhere near the point we were at now!

That is just to make it clear that evolution is not about that. It's about th study of observable events and facts and trying to establish cause and effect. Even if we did not have a theory of evolution, the fact that we share so much DNA with some apes would still be a fact. Another fact: 90% of our DNA is the same as that of common bacteria. The other 10% makes the difference.

Your second question:

Darwin's theory of evolution does not imply that creatures become more civilized. It simply says that the ones that adapt best to their environment will survive best and the others will either struggle or die out. This does not mean to say that there is no evolution in the societal sense (meaning 'civilization'), but that is more or less a philosophical matter rather than one that can be measured empirically.

Answer 4

Yep, fun, and asked a thousand times before. Once again, we did not evolve from apes. No scientist claims we did. The apes are on a divergent branch of the evolutionary tree, which split from us several million years ago. We had a common ancestor at one point, but a group of them left the trees to become a subgroup of hominids that eventually began to walk upright, the better to see over tall savannah grasses and move faster over open ground. These became the australopithecines, homo erectus, cro-magnon man and eventually homo sapiens. An offshoot of that branch became the ill-fated Neanderthals.

Meanwhile, the proto-apes that stayed in the trees diversified in that environment and became successful in a variety of niches as they specialized in a more arboreal lifestyle and became the various apes you see today. An even earlier branch fills out the more primitive monkeys, and an even earlier and more isolated branch became the lemurs of Madagascar.

Apes are still around because they are successful in their environment with their lifestyle. They have less evolutionary pressure to change in any significant way because their environment still supports them well; as their habitat shrinks and the worldwide temperatures rise, they will eventually have to adapt or die off. For the opposite reason, humans have not evolved much in the past few hundred thousand years because we have technology to help prevent death and starvation of those less hardy individuals in our society -- just because you're a 98-pound weakling doesn't mean you won't survive and reproduce. The handicapped and mentally challenged in our society don't get hunted by predators, so their genes can still survive in the gene pool and get passed on rather than weeded out. Evolution is still happening, but on a more social scale -- let's say that American's prefer tall mates, so over time, the average height starts to go up. Or if genius is actually hereditary and people learn to prefer eggheads, then we'll tend towards better organized brains capable of genius. Unfortunately, we seem to be evolving into people who watch Jerry Springer on a regular basis... maybe the gorillas had the right idea...

Answer 5

Apes are a relative of our ancestor, and we ourselves are also related to this ancestor. This ancestor is often known to as 'early primate'. From this ancestor evolved into many different other modern primates, which includes chimpanzees, gorillas, and human.

The course of this took over 200,000+ years which barely a percent of recorded human history (about 10,000 years).

You may not think that the human race has become more civilized, but if you were to look through documents (paintings, books, etc) of the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Chinese, Sumerians, and the Kingdom of Israel and compare those to that of the Middle Ages, then compare that to the Renaissance, then that of the Industrial Age of the 1900s, and finally the year 2000 and present.

This is part of the process of evolving, evolution is not when one creature changes into another, but rather the survival of the fittest. An example is that of wars throughout human history, countries and empires that are unable to defend themselves will be invaded, taken over, their people will be killed, and their genes won't no longer be in the human gene pool because their dead and unable to mate and produce offsprings with those genes.

The Theory of Evolution is the idea that the creatures adapt themselves their species will live longer, those that are unable to will be extinct.

Answer 6

I am not going to argue that theory of God verses evolution, but if evolution is correct and I said if, there would be a possibility that not all apes evolved the same, maybe some stayed similar because I am sure that apes of today are not like apes from 50 million years ago. Just like maybe, and I say maybe the chicken evolved from the turkey, they are very similar in many ways yet different and we still have the turkey. (just using that as an example). If evolution is correct, there could have been a possibility that apes that traveled to different parts of the world and ate different things and a different climate caused them to loose hair, their tail and the other traits that make us differ from the closely related primates.

Answer 7

It is possible that in many millions of years present day apes could evolve into some other humanlike species. It is, however, very improbable. First of all, humans did not evolve from any of the species we know as apes today. At some point 5 to 8 million years ago, the common ancestor of humans and modern apes diverged to form the two separate lineages we know today. The species at the end of these lineages are a result of a very specific combination of selection pressures and genetic mutations over millions of years. This same combination is highly unlikely to occur ever again.

Answer 8

Simply because we evolved from apes doesn't mean apes have to die out. They found a good place to live in - forests etc and good food 5000 years ago and it still exists, so no reason why they should die out. People are also evolving but this takes long (thousands of years) so you won't see the difference immediately. Christian scientist.

Answer 9

Oh sweet Apollonius Christ.

The apes that we are are the ones who keep asking this question over and over.

And because we as a species have peaked, our technology has made us lazy and we're actually devolving into sluglike beings who will soon not be able to manuever under our own power. We're relying too much on modern conveniences.

Answer 10

Maybe just one genus of ape evolved. Maybe the current primates were much lower evolved when 'we' evolved...(well, most of us anyway!)
We are evolving...notice your pinkie toe, & that of an ape...notice the people being born without wisdom tooth buds...it is happening, we are taller than our ancestors, the Black people got darker to deal with the amount of sun as the ones who moved North got lighter. It has been happening all along.
Read...learn, it happens all the time.

Answer 11

because of some natural occourence,our common ancestor,or the original of our species,branchd off in different directions and some evolved quicker and some didint.apes will eventually evolve even further,they are simply slower at evolvong for some genetic reason