Evolution is supposed to make an organism more complex. If apes survived so long, why haven't the next series of Homos (genus) after ape survived? We are the only Homo left after ape. Shouldn't the Homo between us and ape be to survive better than ape?
2007-01-01 12:49:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
We did not evolve from Apes. We hade a common ancestor with apes. It is possible that an animal can evolve and the animal it evolve from can both exist simultaneously. It is unlikely they would be living at the same place though. There could be a bug. Some of the bug is blown in to an island. The bug begins to evolve to fit their new environment. You would have a new species, and the old species still exist. Latter a bridge is built to the island and now these two species can coexist in the same environment.
2007-01-01 13:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
First, humans did not evolve from apes. Humans *are* apes.
Second, there are lots of transitions between humans and our closest living kin, the chimpanzee. Note that I said 'living kin'. We have many other kins, all extinct.
Evolution does not always make an organism more complex. It means that organisms will change over time. An example is cave fish, who have evolved with no eyes, or with eyes that don't function. In the dark of caves, what is the point of eyes? Evolution and Natural Selection chose a path that discarded eyes.
2007-01-01 22:53:27 · answer #2 · answered by RjKardo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You have received some very good answers, especially from secretsause. What I continue to not understand is the appalling ignorance of evolutionary theory, among people who claim educational accomplishment. I went to your pictures, on your 360 page. I see you have a dog. Did you know that 12,000 years ago dogs began the long artificial selection to the dog you have as companion. With this form of very successful artificial selection, the same domestication that informed Darwin, how can you justify remaining ignorant of the theory of evolution by natural selection? I suggest you start at the beginning; " The Origin of Species ", by Charles Robert Darwin. At least, save yourself chagrin.
2007-01-01 21:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Homo Sapiens survived. Another species with nearly equal intellegence to us would be a threat and something our early ancestors would have tryed to remove.
2007-01-01 21:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by dracaena 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
very good question, wanted to ask it myself .
anyway thats one more point to show that darwinism can not be the ONLY explanation for our existence .
what you dont use, you loose is an aspect of natural selection we see in people , that does not mean that if all people stopped walking then people will start to be born wiithout legs?
what i mean to say , although adaptation and evolution are proven features of living organisms , they are NOT the ONLY reason we have the biosphere we have today .
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how does it make scence , on the one hand we are supposed to believe that CIRCUMSTANCE caused a development of a spieces and the extinction of another by being survivable by one and lethal to the other , on the other hand we are told that the SURVIVAL of some undeveloped spieces that COEXIST with the developed spieces is because of the same THEORY
if they survived , when did the INCOMPATIBILITY AND SELECTION happen?
2007-01-01 21:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by shogunly 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Because apes are secretly intelegent. They are the 'master-minds' of our administration. Yep. That's right. They make all the decisions. They are setting it up so that humans soon anihilate each other and they will take over the world! Then, they will start landing in thier UFO's and massively populate the planet. Any humans that happened to have made it will be made into slaves.
Or, maybe there is something to Creationism?
2007-01-01 20:56:19 · answer #6 · answered by Delta Charlie 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The theory of people evolving from apes was made up by religious nut-cases. It is not and never has been part of the theory of evolution.
2007-01-01 20:53:41 · answer #7 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
man didn't evolve from modern apes. Mondern Apes and man come from a long extinct common ancestor(s).
2007-01-01 21:28:08 · answer #8 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty. Have a look in museums in the early human fossil section. They all died because they did not have what it took to survive, or we killed and ate them all. Homosapiens were not known for their intelligence.
2007-01-01 21:14:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is simple...man did not evolve from apes. The hypothesis of evolution (no, it's not even strong enough to be called a theory) goes against just about every law of physics and thermodynamics. I'm not talking religion or faith here, it's simple science. Darwin himself said that if the single cell were found to be complex, his theory would amount to nothing. I don't even think Darwing would put much stock in evolution if he were alive today.
2007-01-01 21:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋