2006-11-27 15:48:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
It's a theory made up by a scientist who wanted his name in the history books. It's not "knowing" that your grandpappy was an ape. From the looks of things God created many different species of animals so many in fact it would be difficult to say one evolved from the other.
2006-11-27 15:58:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
You don't know as much as you think you do. Hominids (like us) and apes are cousin families. We did not descend from them. They did not descend from us. Rather, we both descend from common ancestors.
About 25 million years ago, there was one genus of primate, whom we've named Proconsul. Proconsul racianated, and his races became distinct lines of separately evolving species. The gibbon line fissioned away about 17 million years ago. The orangutan line split off about 12 million years ago. The gorilla line separated about 8 million years ago. The chimpanzees and the bonobos split away about 5 million years ago.
What was left of Proconsul's descendants in our direction was the hominid family. The original species in that family was probably either Australopithecus amanensis or Australopithecus africanus.
Racination: the divergence of a single species into several proto-noveau species, or races, seems to occur among primates fairly quickly. No sooner had the first hominids appeared than they began to separate and differently adapt to their different environments. Nature kept busy producing new hominid types and trying them out against each other, as well as against the environment, to see which model was best suited to supplant all the others.
Many hominid species fell by the wayside. We know of a few of them, such as Neanderthal and Australopithecus robustus. But there were probably many more of whom we've never seen any trace. The massive inertia of evolution in primate behavior is all behind violent tribal competition, which is why racism is natural for us.
Our "racist" instincts have been temporarily blunted by the surfeit of available fossil fuel energy, but, when the supplies of oil and natural gas are gone, you should expect human tribalism to return full-force, and possibly with a vengeance.
2006-11-29 12:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that we evolved from an ape called Sivipithecus which eventually evolved into an ape called Tomai (or possibly Ardipithecus, or similar species) which then split into two branches. One branch developed knuckle walking and evolved into the chimps. Another branch developed a large brain and evolved into us. I think that it would be far simpler and accurate to just go ahead and classify humans as a type of ape but since we are the ones doing the labeling, we chose to separate ourselves from the rest of the apes.
2006-11-28 16:01:24 · answer #3 · answered by JimZ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Homo Sapiens did not evolve from any ape or monkey currently alive.
Our closest relatives - chimpanzees, with whom we share 98% of our DNA - share a common ancestor with Homo Sapiens, a primate who lived some 6 million years ago. The family tree branched off from there, leading to the humans on one side (eventually) and the apes on another.
Those who continue blithely to deny evolution either don't understand, don't want to understand it or don't care about the overwhelming load of evidence in its favor.
2006-11-28 00:20:49 · answer #4 · answered by Koko Nut 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Humans, apes, and monkeys EVOLVED from a common ancestor millions of years ago. There is scientific evidence (i.e. the fossil record) that proves much of human evolution occurred in Africa. Early humans inhabited Africa for a long period of time. They eventually gave rise to other human species, who branched out to Asia and Europe. Apes and monkeys 'branched' out of the evolutionary tree millions of years ago. Your question is rather confusing. Whatever happened to spelling out an entire word and utilizing 'spell check'?
2006-11-28 00:27:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Apes happens to be a relative of homo sap's but they didn't transform to. apes r creation of some great thing.
2006-11-28 12:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apes evovled from monkeys and monkeys evolved like the way birds did..
donot take tension dude
2006-11-28 00:05:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Primate ancestorsof monkeys
2006-11-27 23:53:03 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would you think that homo sapiens evolved from apes? Because you were taught so in school by an evolutionist? Grow up! Study criticisms of the cult of evolution to see on what shakey ground it stands.
2006-11-28 00:09:53 · answer #9 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
It all started with one cell organisims
2006-11-28 09:06:43 · answer #10 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋