2006-10-07 02:49:45 · 8 answers · asked by The_Experience 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
1) We did not evolve FROM apes. We evolved from a common ancestor. Similar to you not being descended from your aunt like your cousin is, but you are both descended from your grandmother.
2) We do seem to be evolving. We are taller than we were 200 years ago. Our brains are bigger. Our diets are changing, etc. Yes, we will evolve.
EDIT: MBSPARKS apparently did not read my answer. My religion has nothing to do with this. It's actually an understanding of the science behind evolution.
2006-10-07 02:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by just browsin 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Guys, guys...
Yes, we did evolve from apes. BUT not the apes of today, but an ape that was the common ancestor of humans and modern African apes. The group, to my humble knowledge looks something like
(gibbons (orangutans (gorillas (humans (chimps+bonobos))))),
where all represented species are apes, and the common ancestor of humans and, say, chimps, which lived AFTER the ape family split off the other branches of the primate tree (and from which we ARE descended), was an ape. To put all those answers right :P
AND evolution doesn't only happen when the environment becomes unbearable. Sexual selection doesn't only work in crisis, to say just one obvious example. Peacock tails are not the result of any catastrophe...
Back to the original question, yes, we will, unless humans go extinct before giving rise to something else. Which, of course, can happen. I guess most fossil species have no living descendants either.
2006-10-07 03:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all we did evolve from Apes, just to put that first answer into place. Science has proved it's sad that you religion won't let you see that.
And in actuality every person is evolving. If you know anything about Anatomy and Physiology, you learn about mutations of the cells, which is one reason everyone is unique and no one is the same. It is theorized that these mutations are the next step in evolution. Making everyone different in hopes that they will be able to survive in our ever changing world.
2006-10-07 03:02:45 · answer #3 · answered by mbsparks11@verizon.net 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolving occurs when environment changes in a way that creatures cannot live anymore in it. If we think about environment pollution, we can assume that there is a possibility to evolve to a kind more tolerant of this pollution. Yet I think this will happen in 3-4 centuries.
2006-10-07 03:01:30 · answer #4 · answered by Nadia 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - we will stay the same. Why? Well, that's a different story, the important thing to remember that evolution is just a theory, not fact. It's possible we never evoloved from something else at all! Gasp - totally serious! There is a difference from adaptation/microevolution and macroevolution!
2006-10-07 05:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by natureutt78 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the problem with the evolution theory. If we evolved from apes then why haven't we continued to evolve and why haven't the apes? What about other species?
2006-10-07 02:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Evolution is an ongoing process. It's always been happening and there's hardly any chance for it to stop - it's against nature's laws.
2006-10-07 02:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
obviously we will eveolve
we have noticed a change inc omplexity over evolutionary time
so we will change after much period of time and complexity increases over evolutionary time period
2006-10-07 04:29:23 · answer #8 · answered by ipsita pattnaik 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋