Who/What did the common ancestor evolve from?

Question

I just saw some evolutionists say that man and apes evolved from the same common ancestor so I was just wondering who/what you all believed the common ancestor evolved from?

Answer 1

The common ancestor was a form that in turn evolved from earlier, more primitive forms. This process takes MILLIONS of years, do you understand that? You dont have a common ancestor one day, and a new species the next day. The next MILLENNIA perhaps, but not the next day. Good grief, man. Read a high-school level textbook on speciation or evolutionary biology before you try to formulate a world-view. The Bible is a book. It's a good book, maybe even a great book, but it's not THE ONLY BOOK.

Answer 2

Evolution is not a step-by-step process. It is a massive tree, with species branching more and more divergently from the original form of life.

Let's try this with some simple little letter groups.

'Life' starts as AAABBB. Everything on the planet is AAABBB. But then, one mutates slightly during reproduction, and becomes AAABBC. This slight change is slightly beneficial -- perhaps it means it hunts better, or converts more of the sunlight. Either way, this is a good thing. Another mutates into AAABBA. For some reason, AAABBA doesn't do so good. It dies off in only a few generations.

AAABBC is doing so good that it lays claim to 90% of the life on the planet, but AAABBB is still out there as the other 10%. AAABBC spawns AABBBC in a mutation, that does good. AAABBC also spawns AAABBD, and that does good. AABBBC and AAABBD both do so good that they completely out-compete AAABBC.

Now, AABBBC itself ALSO forks, forming (through mutation): BBBBBC, AAAABC, and CABBBC. These do well enough that AABBBC speceis is soon exstinct with the original AAABBB species. Notice that AAABBB leads to AAABBC and AAABBA, and the latter dies off, but AAABBC splits and then dies off but one of the daughter species splits.

Eventually you reach the first life form if you work the process backwards, and at that point, you're no longer looking at evolution, you're looking at abiogenesis.

Answer 3

The common ancestor would have been around 15-20 million years ago. 65 million years ago there was a common ancestor between humans and mice.

While everything is not understood completely about evolution, the theory of the evolution of species still seems to be the best explanation for our current diversity in species.

Answer 4

Nobody really knows the answer to your very good question yet. Don't let anyone convince you they have the right answer at this point, not the evolutionists and not the creationists. Keep an open mind. Others with open minds are working on this and one day we will have the answer. Till then steer clear of all who think they are in sole possession of all the right answers. Is there a single answer above that makes complete sense to you?
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Answer 5

It's called abiogenesis. Basically, on early Earth, there were a whole bunch of basic organic molecules floating around including some amino acids (important in genetics and heredity). Since the atmosphere was incredibly oxidising and thus supercharged, the high energy cause some spontaneous development of a structure that was intrinsically some organic molecules inside a lipid bubble in the water. From this point on, evolution created more and more complex creatures.

Answer 6

Apes evolved from monkeys and then man evolved from the ape and man is considered an ape anyway so that is not a good question.

Answer 7

Archeologists have discovered several pre-human remains in recent decades. The most well-known of which is "Lucy", an example of Australopithecus africanus (see wikipedia source), who is believed to have lived ~3.5 million years ago.

There's also Kenyanthropus platyops, believed to have lived ~3.3 million years ago, and Ardipithecus ramidus, ~4.4 million years ago.

Physically, these are all fairly small species. Lucy is ~ 3'8" tall, and is believed to have resembled a small, hairy human. The article below includes an artist's rendering you may find interesting.

Answer 8

There is a long chain of ancestry, and the best way to learn about it is to read Dawkins' remarkable book The Ancestor's Tale. We share some genes with the dinosaurs, as well as with the plants that they ate.

Answer 9

Well, scientists pretty much believe we evolved from a rock, well actually they believe we come from nothing. we are so complex, to get everything right in the whole world is as equivalent as throwing 6 billion cones in the air and all of them landing on heads

Answer 10

They evolved from some previous primate-like thing. Eventually back to more rodent sized mammals 65 millions years ago, and back further.