About evolution from monkeys?

Question

if we evolved from monkeys, why arent our bodies still evolving? and how come monkeys arent still evolving into humans?

Answer 1

it takes millions of years, like cells which takes like around 10-40 years to evolve check out black plague

Answer 2

Ok.... apparently someone else that doesn't understand evolution. Seriously, wth do they teach in American schools? How to pick your nose rather than facts?

HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS.

Humans and monkeys evolved from a COMMON ANCESTOR called a PRIMATE.

Monkey's just travelled a different path from human beings down the path of evolution. Just so you know, there is less than 2% genetic difference between a chimpanzee and a human being.

And THERE WAS NOT a sudden jump from a primate to a human being. Things have changed over time. They didn't just suddenly go from being a fur covered 3 foot creature that eats ants with twigs, to becoming a fully upright human being with opposable thumbs, a large brain, and a real spoken language in an eye blink.

By all the gods, study evolution. The booger in your nose can wait.

Btw, we ARE still evolving. What do you think mutation is? it's one step on the path.

Answer 3

Chapter 1, first paragraph of human evolution: We share a common ancestor to monkeys, we did not evolve from them. And we are still evolving, and so are they. Humans are getting taller, living longer, etc. These are all changes to a gene pool over time, which is the definition of evolution. And monkeys are also still evolving. But it takes thousands of years for the slightest change to occur, so you don't see it happen.

Answer 4

Yes, we evolved from monkeys.

Yes, we are still evolving, but the change doesn't occur to a single organism, it happens to a population -- allele frequency changes within a population.

Monkeys are still evolving, but being a monkey is a good life, so they're just evolving into slightly different monkeys. With the right selection pressure, you might find another intelligent species evolving from them. Give it a few tens of millions of years. Be patient.

Answer 5

Actually? This is the actual answer. We did not evolve from monkeys. You have a completely uninformed view of the theory of natural selection. What the theory actually says is that we have a common ancestor with monkeys that is relatively recent. by relatively, I mean a couple of sets of ten million years. With Chimps and Gorillas, we have a closer ancestor. The species we evolved from split into a number of different species, the most successful among them being us. And we still are evolving. You simply cannot see major evolution because you live for only about 70 years, 100 at max, and evolution takes millions. However, you can see small evolution. Look at the range of Human skin color in the world. That is incredibly small evolution. As to monkeys evolving to humans? Because they split from us. Our common ancestor began to evolve in two different ways. One became many higher primates, one became monkeys. Research it. It's not implausible at all. We KNOW evolution happens. We can see it in AIDS. When we use one drug against AIDS, it mutates and evolves into a drug-resistant version of AIDS.

Answer 6

duh, we're still evolving - it's a slow process, millions of years! Heck, people have gotten, on average, much taller over just the past thousand years - that's pretty fast for evolution.

and technically we didn't evolve from "monkeys" - all monkeys, apes, humans descended from a common ancestor (who was probably primate-like enough that it would be fair to think of it as a monkey/ape and not a homo sapiens). Evolution is about differentiation, not linear progress. One primate family heads for the forested hills, and after a thousand years become good climbers... the other fmaily heads for the lowlands and after a thousand years becoems bigger and burlier than their cousins... give it a million years and you end up with monkeys and apes... they spread out and adapt to their particular surroundings break into even more specific types...

Why are some people so resistant to the idea of evolution? Can't the Origin of Species and the Bible tell different versions of the same story?

Answer 7

We are evolving. So are the monkeys. It takes hundreds upon hundreds of generations for there to be a visible change in phenotype. Monkeys won't evolve into humans no matter how many generations perpetuate. At most monkeys will become more evolved monkeys.

You're not really this ignorant are you?

Answer 8

Evolution is not about becoming something else -- it is about survival. Successful forms (e.g. sharks, alligators) may persist if their environments are preserved. Oddly enough, lack of success is the biggest catalyst of change. Modern monkeys and apes (including humans) evolved from an insect eating creature closely related to Carpolestes simpsoni from the fossil record (or possibly from it directly). Modern apes, monkeys, lemurs, treeshrews, and flying lemurs are all descended from this common ancestor which cannot be classified as a monkey. All continue to evolve so long as there are new generations.

Answer 9

1) not monkeys. Apes. Apes can brachiate (move via arms movement - monkeys cannot!)
2) Evolution takes millions of years.
3) We are still evolving...look at the fibula bone. It has been decreasing in average size for hundreds of years. It has nearly disappeared in the chicken. Ditto for the useless appendix and tonsils.
4) Monkeys will never evolve into humans. They are monkeys.

Answer 10

Who says that monkeys aren't still evolving? Who says that we still aren't evolving? We've only been paying attention to the rules of evolution for a couple hundred years now. Since true evolution occurs over thousands or even millions of years the progression is too slow to be measured over local time.

Answer 11

Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Our bodies are still evolving. Other monkeys and apes are still evolving, but we can't view it in our limited lifespan; evolution is a slow generational process.