Monkey Evolution?!?

Question

ok............... if we evolved from monkeys and apes..... then why are there still monkeys and apes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUH people........ quit being so stupid

Answer 1

I really can't figure out anymore if these questions are real or not. You are either mocking people who don't know anything about evolution or actually don't know anything about evolution. But I did like the title question:

"Monkey Evolution?!?"

Answer 2

Setting aside religious theories, humans did not evolve from apes, we share a common ancestor with apes. At some point in history, humans and apes took different paths. One group evolved into hominids, the other into the African ape. Humans are still evolving to this day. Our brains are becoming more developed and we have less hair than modern man when he first appeared. The process is extremely slow, but it works.

Please, consider my answer based on scientific merit. Religious beliefs are just that, beliefs. They are matters of faith. If you need your faith to be proved, then it's not very well founded to begin with. Let science answer the "how" and let your faith answer the "why." Science isn't trying to replace God, no matter what many conservative pundits would have you think. It would be self-defeating, since there is no way to prove or disprove that God exists. If there were, we'd all be either atheist or religious. Do a little research and come to your own conclusions, but be open-minded. Don't discount a theory before you hear the evidence.

Answer 3

Here's a hint: ecological niches. I know it's part of the Gr. 9 science curriculum and it's hard to grasp but here... read the Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_niche

Now that we have some basic science knowledge, we can go on to talk about why what you said in your question is blatantly false.

We did not evolve from monkeys. No way, never happened. What we DID evolve from, was a common ancestor that monkeys also shared at some point in the past. Most likely this ancestor had ten fingers and ten toes, had all the same organs, etc. The ancestor also had 48 chromosomes like we did at one point - before ours fused. ( http://www.micro.utexas.edu/courses/levin/bio304/humanevol/humanevol.html - "Note that the existing difference in chromosome number between these species (46 vs. 48) is the result of the fusion of the chimpanzee chromosomes #2 and #3.")

But, due to our ecological niches (remember those?) we parted ways with our other primate friends to form homo sapiens. We kept evolving our way, they kept on evolving their way. Nowhere will our paths ever cross again.

Answer 4

I suggest you actually do a little research and reading instead of getting your 'talking points' from a ID website. No where does evolution state that we evolved directly from monkeys and apes. Humans and the great apes share a common ancestor, a huge difference. Do that reading I suggested and maybe you'll be the one who doesn't come across as the stupid one.

Answer 5

DUH Gurl,

Evolution works more or less like this:

A genetic mutation happens in an INDIVIDUAL. Sometimes it gets passed down to the next generation. If that mutation increases the chances that the organization and/or its offspring survives and/or reproduces at a higher rate, the mutation occurs more often in the generation after that. So that single organism's mutation occurs in exponentially increasing numbers.

Mutations happen ALL THE TIME. Most of them don't increase survival or reproduction rates, so they tend to not get passed down in numbers large enough to matter.

Eventually enough genetic differences accumulate that the two (or three or two dozen) lines are recognizably different species.

It's not a matter of all monkeys or apes transmogrifying into humans. It was an accumulation of genetic changes over time. These changes first occurred in one individual animal.

Please make an attempt to understand what you're writing about before you post a question. Do you like it when non-Christians make things up about your religion and ask stupid questions based on their wrong assumptions? That's what you just did.

Answer 6

The reason we evolved and others didn't is because of the 4% genetic difference between those that did evolve and those that didn't. There is a ton of data and fossils discovered that show the link between humans and monkeys as well as the growth and development through the millenniums as far as changes to the human species. Also, we are not directly descended, we are decended from a common relative. That would also connect with the genetics theories that exist.

Answer 7

Earls Gurl, when you typed this question into Yahoo the "Previous questions" list should have shown you that it has been asked around 160 times before, and "Why are there still apes" around 150. You are without doubt one of the stupidest people posting here if you think this is a clever question, because you can't even be bothered to look for an answer, and Earl would do well to find someone with an IQ above that of a tomato. Even if that's what he has.

Answer 8

We did not evolve from monkeys and apes, we evolved from a common ancestor that we share with monkeys and apes. They found ecological niches that they thrived in, and therefore still exist. Look up phylogenetic tree to have a better understanding.

Answer 9

We evolved from isolated populations of monkeys and apes. The main populations, well adapted to their living environments, gave rise to the monkeys and apes we have today.

Here's a question for you: if Christianity arose out of Judaism, why are there still Jews?

Answer 10

You haven't learned a thing about evolution. We didn't evolve from monkeys or apes. Monkeys, humans, and apes all evolved from the same species of now-extinct primate.

Answer 11

Puhleese!
No evolutionist ever said we evolved from Monkeys and apes, certainly not Charles Darwin.
You just want to parade your ignorance here don't you? (note I said ignorance not stupidity)
Humans, monkeys, apes, chimps, baboons etc are all primates, we all evolved from a proto-ape millions of years ago, the proto-ape no longer exists it died out long ago. But guess what?... Humans are still a species of ape, so I hope you don't choke with shock.