for all you people that say we come from monkeys what about this?

Question

if humans evolved from moneys,,, why are moneys not still turning into humans.................

Answer 1

Thank you! I would love to see who thinks they have the answer to that.

Answer 2

THis is the answer I gave to a question identical to this:

Evolution is one of those very dangerous subjects in which just knowing the surface of the subject can be misleading. Humans did not evolve from monkeys. We evolved from the ancestors of current apes. Think of it like a fork in the road. The apes took their path, and we took ours. And all evidence does point to Darwin's theory of natural selection being correct.

Edit: To those of you saying that evolution only occurs over thousands of years.......this isn't necessarily true. Over the last 50 years bacteria have evolved to become antibiotic resistant. Since bacteria reproduce on a much shorter time period and they don't have the DNA repair mechanisms that eukaryotes have, their DNA mutates much more rapidly than ours. Evolution has been documented in our life times. Go read about the galapagos finches.

Also, monkeys will NOT eventually evolve into humans in 1000 years as one person claimed. Humans are not the tip of the evolutionary tree as some would like to think; we are just another branch on the evolutionary bush.

Answer 3

anon ans was the best in that similar qns... and for goodness sake WE DID NOT evolved from moneys or MONKEYS

anyway heres mine:
because thing changes over with time. and evolution takes millions or even zillions of years. Unless you have a remote controlling the pace of life, otherwise you wouldnt see the change even when you are on your deathbed.

since there is no drastic change to the surrounding, thus the alleles present in the gene pool are still viable, they are passed on to their offsprings aka less mutation occurs

Answer 4

Wow. That's all I can really say to such an idiotic question.

Please go read some books and come back with an intelligent question.

I guess I had more to say than "Wow".


Had to come back after reading some of the answers to your question. Unbelievable how many people actually thought your question was a good one. I am shocked at this moment that our species has come so far out of the primordial soup. I certainly hope this is a example of the users of "Yahoo Answers" and not the human population as a whole. Scary.

Answer 5

Humans don't evolve from monkeys, we just share a common ancestor.

Answer 6

NO ONE WHO REMOTELY UNDERSTANDS EVOLUTION (note that only creationists make the comment you just made) SAYS HUMANS CAME FROM MONKEYS. OR APES. OR CHIMPS.

WE SHARED A COMMON ANCESTOR. THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN OMG LOL MONKEYS TURNED INTO HUMANS.

THis is about the 15th time I've given this answer here, but the first time in a few days. Good job.

Answer 7

Because humans did not evolve directly from monkeys. Apes and humans and monkeys all evolved from a common ancestor, not from each other.

Answer 8

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Where do we start in th eface of such stupidity?

Who has told you we come from monkeys? They are as stupid as you are. Monkeys and apes (including humans) have a common ancestor.

A species does not turn into another species. Small populations within that species do.

Animals evolve in a random manner, there is no desire or set path to follow.

Answer 9

Slower rate of evolution is one scenario ... who says they're not? It took millions of years to get us to this stage of evolution, you think because you can't see it happening, that means it isn't?

And another possibility is the simple fact that it may not be deemed necessary by natures selection. Meaning, humans are already here, we've already evolved to suit our environment, further evolving isn't required in that species section.

And it's not a matter of what you believe cupcake, evolution has scientific basis. You were a monkey, back far enough in your ancestry. Face facts.

Answer 10

This is a good question, and it points out a common misconception. The quick answer is that humans didn’t actually evolve from modern apes (we are much more related to apes and so I have confined my answer to apes as opposed to monkeys). But we did both evolve from a common ancestor who happened to look more like an ape than a human. This explains why apes are not spontaneously changing into humans as we speak.

The process also took millions of years to gradually happen. Perhaps if you stared at a colony of apes for a million years like some sort of sci-fi time machine movie, then you'd see the apes evolving. Not necessarily into humans though.

Human evolution happened because of the specific conditions our ancestors found themselves in. And a bit of luck.

So what is evolution? Evolution is a natural process that changes all living things over many generations.

Evolution requires at least two things. First, we all have differences in our DNA, the instructions for making every living creature. These DNA differences lead to various eye colors, skin colors, blood types, and all of the other variation that exists between each of us.

Some of these DNA differences don’t matter. Others can be bad and cause diseases and even death. And some of these differences in DNA can help a person to live longer or stay healthier. For example, one DNA difference seems to make people more resistant to HIV and maybe also smallpox and the plague (see source for more details).

Second, evolution requires that DNA be passed from one generation to the next. This way, any survival advantage can be passed from parent to child.

Combining these, evolution works because animals (or other living things) with beneficial DNA differences usually survive longer and are able to have more kids. And those with bad DNA changes often die before they can have kids. Over time, more and more animals have the good DNA, and fewer have the bad DNA. This is called natural selection.

So now that we understand evolution and natural selection, how can this explain why we have humans and apes?

One way natural selection can work to evolve new species is if the old species gets split into two groups. The two groups have to be separated in different environments for a long time. This is what might have happened to cause modern apes and humans to appear. The story probably went something like this.

Sometime between eight million and five million years ago, Africa had more rain and was covered by forests. During this time, an ape-like species (our common ancestor) lived in these forests. They were quite successful and spread all over the continent.

Then the climate began to change, the land began to dry out, and the forests began to disappear. Some of these ape-like creatures continued to live successfully in the woods. But others were forced to leave the woods and go into the open fields of grass.

What works best for survival in the grasslands is different than what works best in the forest. Once our ancestors found themselves out of the woods, they couldn’t hide from predators as well, and food was not as plentiful. Many of these ape-like creatures living in the grasslands could not survive.

But some of these creatures did survive- those that could walk on two feet, for example. Walking on two feet may have helped them to run for longer distances to get away from predators. It also may have helped them to find food from further away and have free hands to carry it back home. Whatever the reason, those that could walk on two feet were surviving more often.

The ape-like creatures that could walk on two feet had kids that were also more able to walk on two feet (this is controlled by one’s DNA). So every generation, more and more of the surviving population could walk on two feet. The others got killed off by predators and/or starved to death.

Over many generations (and a few million years) living in separate places, we ended up with two different species. The ones in the grasslands walked on two feet, learned to make tools and work in groups, and eventually evolved into us. Those that stayed in the forest evolved into modern apes. Of course, those in the forest also changed after many years to survive better in the forest.

So there you have it. We didn’t evolve from apes; rather, apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Natural selection doesn’t care about whether a species is smarter or more progressive. It only cares about whether a species can survive long enough to find a mate and have kids.

Thus, the reason that modern apes are still around is that they have been successful at surviving in their environment. And we are still around because we have also been successful at living in our environment. Perhaps the most amazing thing is that after 5-8 million years, we still share 98% of the same DNA with our distant cousins, the modern apes!

Answer 11

they are, it's just that you don't have the extra millions of years to watch the process take place. what do you think humans are evolving into?