If we evolved from Monkeys, why are the monkeys still in the Jungle?

Answer 1

WOW!

I have argued with myself about posting a reply...

I am not doing this to spark a major debate...

I have years of college and some degrees in science...

Based on the assumption of your question that you are a evolutionist, then some of the answers are correct...man is a divergent of a prior species. Homo Sapians has found their niche' in an enviorment to proliferate...

But what if Creationism is true...and man was made in Gods image?

Then monkeys are a simple diversion for Man to chase their DNA characteristics...99% of DNA of chimps matches man.

Last thought...what if Man was created..in His image,by GOD..in an earlier form...then Man evolved from that...thus giving Man as we know today.

Answer 2

We are related to monkeys, it's true, but we didn't evolve from them, as others here have noted. We have a common ancestor. Millions of years ago, monkeys and the great apes, a group that we belong to, separated. More recently, our line split away from the gorilla line, then the chimpanzee line. Those shared ancestors are now extinct. We are very close to chimps; we share almost 99% of our DNA with them. Monkeys, we're a bit farther apart.

The reason that we've still got monkeys and great apes is because we all occupy different ecological niches. They do fine with their thing, and we do really well with ours. There is competition for resources, but we're not in an us vs them kind of a thing here, which is generally how new species replace the old. It's probably what happened with the Neanderthals- when we came along, we were much better at doing our thing in the environment available than they were, and our things- the food we lived on, the places we live- were so similar that we just outcompeted them. It's like at the office. The accountant doesn't threaten the HR person's job, because it's two completely different offices. However, if a new HR person arrives on the scene, who can do their HR thing ten times better than the old person, the old person's gonna be applying for unemployment real quick.

Answer 3

As previous answers have pointed out, no one is arguing that humans evolved from monkeys- they are arguing that humans and monkeys both evolved from an early primate ancestor. However, it wouldn't present a problem if humans did evolve from monkeys. This is because the process of speciation begins with the dvision of allele frequencies in a given population, which means that for various reasons a segment of a population breaks off to form a new species. In this way, it would be possible to have both moneks and humans, falsley assuming that humans evolved from monkeys.

I am not trying to be mean or condescending, but I suggest that you read up on evolution, if only to know what it is that you disagree with.

Answer 4

If that argument had any real substance, there could be no more than one species on earth at all. The reason we can have such great biological diversity without this seeming paradox is that we didn't evolve from monkeys. Both monkeys and humans (well, and every other organism, if you go back far enough) evolved from a common ancestor.

Answer 5

We did not evolve from the monkeys. But we share our ancestores. Many different species evolved form these ancestors. Even the monkeys are not much alike: chimps and orang utans are smart, some other species of monkeys are not.

Answer 6

There is no scientific theory that says humans evolved from monkeys. That myth is wholly the product of people who condemned the theory of evolution without ever studying it. The book-burning mentality.

There is no real conflict between the theory of evolution, which Darwin considered a tool used by God and creationism. The only conflict is with the pseudo-science of one Bishop named Usher who said the earth was created in the year 4004 B.C., he even gave the date and time of day. Too much sacramental wine.

Answer 7

Technically, we ARE monkeys. We're Old World monkeys. We can also be classified as apes. We shared a common ancestor with modern-day monkeys... and voilà! Humans and other primates exist contemporaneously.

Answer 8

Humans evolved from a primate ancestor, along different lines than the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans that are our closest DNA matches. In other words, at some point all currently living primates shared a common ancestor but a variety of factors lead to the evolution of different species. It's a lot like tigers, leopards and domestic cats - related but not the same and living in the same time and space. My personal belief is that this doesn't preclude God's creation of humanity as a special line of evolution, one that could believe in Him and accept His love.

Answer 9

From all the discoveries of bone fragments we are still having the missing link to be found . Even though we humans have similarities in the DNA with monkeys , there is no support to that being true , for example the mammoth evolved only to the elephant , the great white shark is almost prehistoric and has not change much , the alligator or crocodile , the iguanas all prehistoric survivors has not change much .. so consequently we being the last ones to come in existence , there is too much of a change or evolution to come from monkeys , if that was the case we would look a little bit better than the most advanced orangutan or gorilla , there has not been sufficient time in the past for us to have evolved so rapidly to humans ., Now the bible will tell you otherwise , but it was written by monks in the fourth century , for the hole purpose to maintain discipline and some sort of faith of those days , also it's teachings were designed to simplify explications that could be understood by the unsophisticated people of that era , and we continue to folow it ???
One possibility that I see , it may sound far fetched , but first look at who or what technology has constructed unbelievable prehistoric architecture through the world , obviously not some one that could have been half way in the evolution from a monkey ..
The proof is around the world . Now do you think is impossible that our infinite universe does not have other lives with technologies that surpase ours by eons .. consider we are descendants of such other world ? Now if that was the case one could ask who crated them , our descendants , perhaps there could be sufficient time for the evolution to take effect for them or before them , to what we are now. ( and God is in us is us! )

Answer 10

read the origin of specias by darwin!
Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, we each came from a shared relative. we did not come from the monkey's and apes you see today, but one that lived a very very very very long time ago.

Answer 11

because they were different types of monkeys. They weren't the same flippin monkeys that we see today because THEY evolved too.