Evolution - where did the second person come from?

Answer 1

What second person? Look. During a certain timeframe some many hundreds of thousands of years ago, natural mutation caused some simian beings to be born with certain characteristics not found in the parent. Those mutations, found in numerous individuals out of the millions already in existance, proved to be 'survival traits'. That is, those individuals with those traits survived better than many inviduals WITHOUT those traits. They passed ON those traits to their offspring. Mutation continued. More traits came to be present. Some were non-functional, and those individuals failed to survive long enough or in great enough numbers to breed successfully. Other traits that HELPED survival continued to the NEXT generation, and so on, generation after generation, over and over, decade after decade, century after century, eon after eon, and thus eventually, homo sapiens. Why am I wasting my time on someone who thinks there was only a single individual different than the source type? READ A FRIGGIN BOOK! (Other than the one you obviously have read a few times too many...)

Answer 2

Define with 100% precision just what constitutes 'human' and you'll define only one or zero people human. Your definition must include some room for the natural variance within the species. It is this variance where the transition occurs.

Species are not clear-cut "this is species A and this is species B". Let's say A & B share a common ancestor. Early along A & B may still be close enough to interbreed and you'll get hybrids (horse + donkey = mule). If they are genetically close enough, the hybrid may be fertile, if they are too far apart, the hybrid will likely be sterile. For example, some mules ARE in fact fertile, contrary to common 'knowledge' that they are all infertile.

Answer 3

I don't think you understand evolution. There was no first or second person. There was a gradual evolution into something that we, in this day and age, would consider to be a human. There was never a definite point where something changed from something into a human. It's like asking when does a tree become a table?

Answer 4

Similar to the question "which came first: the chicken or the egg."

The question is loaded into thinking there was a beginning to chicken or human. According to evolution, it would have been the slow change from something else to human while still allowing reproductive compatribiltiy. When we say chicken or homosapien, it is just a division in point of evolution to allow us to differentiate between species divergent enough to be called different.

Answer 5

Not quite sure how to respond to such a naive question other than to say you really need to go to a library and check out some books on the subject.

Your question exhibits such a profound lack of understanding of even the most basic concepts of evolution that I am afraid any answer you get here will seem unsatisfactory to you.

Answer 6

Sorry, but there isn't a line where suddenly a monkey spits out a human. That's not how evolution works. Societies of animals split and find different niches. The make-up of the members of the niche drift genetically until they are significantly different from the groups they split off of.

Answer 7

You almost have a question there. Are you asking when did fixed sexual development evolve in the lineage of man? Are you asking when in evolution do we call hominids people? Are you so uninformed that you believe that the theory of evolution states the "like" begets "unlike" rather than gradual change of vast periods of time?

Answer 8

I know you like to make jokes, but think about this:

The brain weighs some three pounds [1.4 kg], and it comprises 10 billion to 100 billion neurons, no two of which, it is said, are exactly alike. Each neuron can communicate with up to 200,000 other neurons, making the number of different circuits, or pathways, in the brain astronomical. And as if that were not enough, "each neuron is a sophisticated computer" in itself, says Scientific American.

The brain is bathed in a chemical soup, which influences the way neurons behave. And the brain has a much higher level of complexity than even the most powerful computer. "In every head," write Tony Buzan and Terence Dixon, "is a formidable powerhouse, a compact, efficient organ whose capacity seems to expand further towards infinity the more we learn of it." Quoting Professor Pyotr Anokhin, they add: "No man yet exists who can use all the potential of his brain. This is why we don't accept any pessimistic estimates of the limits of the human brain. It is unlimited."

These staggering facts fly in the face of the evolution model. Why would evolution "create" for simple cave dwellers, or even for today's highly educated, an organ with the potential to serve a million or even a billion lifetimes? Truly, only everlasting life makes sense! But what about our body?

Answer 9

The theory of Evolution is flawed. Scientist have tried on numerous times to turn a one cell organism to two cell but nothing happened at the microscopic level they tried it many times with many other test and they came back the same Evolution is a better idea on paper than it is in the real world because they weer clearly designed.It gives more question than anserws and Evolution does not have a leg to stand on in the scientific comunity.

Answer 10

The first human would have evolved from a human-like animal. This animal would be genetically similar to the first human. Therefore, the first human could have reproduced with this similar animal. (When I say human vs. animal, what I mean is that only the "human" could reproduce with the people of today. The "animal" would be as close gentically to the "animal" as you would be to another human.