Did man originate from monkeys?

Answer 1

No. As many people have said, the current evidence is not that humans evolved from (what we now call) monkeys ... but that humans and (what we now call) monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. There is evidence from genetics, from molecular DNA, from fossils, embryology, anatomy, endochrinology, protein structures, immunology, geography of primate species, anthropology, etc. etc.

P.S. ... as a general plea. Please people, know what you're talking about before you post answers on a science forum. Some people actually believe you, and next week will post things like "I read somewhere that scientists think we evolved from whales" ... and this is how bad science propagates, and laypeople get totally confused about what scientists actually DO believe.

No ... the common ancestor between humans and other primates is NOT called "the missing link"! Certainly not by *scientists*. (And I have read Richard Dawkins' "Ancestor's Tale" ... cover-to-cover (it's one of my favorite books) ... and he does not call it the "missing link"). There is no missing link!

And no, no scientist thinks we evolved from whales! Whales indeed have five 'fingers' in their flippers, but that is evidence that humans and whales also share a common ancestor ... which is not that surprising if you know that whales are mammals (and therefore must have had a land-dwelling ancestor).

Again ... before posting on a science forum, please, please, please get your sources right! And hasn't anybody heard of actually putting links to sources?

Answer 2

God made different breeds of monkeys each to do a certain thing. Then he used the parts and modified them to do other tasks. Some to live in the sun, some to live in the woods. etc. and we call it man.
Then he made improvemrnts as time went by and gave it the ability to understand logic and have a will. Now we have modern man. It has not been perfected. Man is a work in progress.

Answer 3

No. Man and monkeys originated from a common ancestor.

Answer 4

No

Man evolved from a common ancestor of Monkeys and Humans known as "The Missing Link"

Answer 5

We split from the APE (no tails) in our past, and doubters need just look at similarity of our DNA for evidence.

We evolved as superior due to a different gene in our DNA which allowed our brains to develop much more rapidly. This DNA was a mutation and was very fortunate for us.

The development of tools helped us add more meat to the diet which increased our advantage over the apes by supplying string RNA/DNA into our diets and adding Vitamin B12 (from red meat) which increased our brain development and also helped us to survive the ice age - loss of vitamin C was helped by storage of fat which diminished cell damage - but unluckily helps us to store fat very efficiently nowadays.

The missing link that joined ape and human has not been found but intrapolation can point to such an animal.

Our last incarnation was cro-magnon man but there have been many changes in our shape and brain capacity since the good old ape days.

We were once a relative but many 000's of years ago.

Answer 6

You should be the one telling us, Charles Darwin. Your own theory states that both humans and monkeys shared one common ancestor, commonly referred to as "The Missing Link".

Answer 7

i will merely say i do no longer have faith guy have been initially monkeys. If i'm no longer wrong, Darwin had pronounced that in the time of sarcasm/frustration yet people have taken that way out of context. despite the fact that if, I do have faith species evolution does ensue. And people more suitable from yet another species interior the 'homo' (as in from homo sapien) kinfolk. that would or won't have similarities with primates.

Answer 8

NO! whoever say humans are originate from apes is just stupid. We just have many things in common but doesn't mean human come from monkeys.

Answer 9

men and monkeys originated from monkeys.

Answer 10

No one is 100% SURE, but me personally, I believe in evolution. It's just TOO uncanny that our DNA is almost identical to that of the apes, but also, (I don't know if you are aware of this) our anatomy on the inside is almost just like that of PIGS too, so how do we explain THAT one?? Hence why many biology classes dissect fetal pigs. So, was "mutations" of DNA already in the plan of "intelligent design" or was it just that, a mutation or a fluke caused by natural selection and environmental factors?