If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Answer 1

We did not evolve from apes.
nor did we evolve from an alleged common ancestor, which for all intents and purposes one might as well label an ape.

Humans are completely different to apes. There is no evidence whatsoever to support the claim that we evolved from anything. All hominid fossils are either clearly ape or clearly human.

Unfortunately a lot of paleontologists have fanciful imaginations, constructing semi humans from nothing more than bone fragments.

The model of Lucy in the Natural History museum in London displays her with human like hands and feet. She was found with no hands and feet. But other australopithecine fossils have been found with ape-like hands and feet. one wonders why the NHM continues to display their grossly misleading display. I suppose this temple to the religion of evolution cna be expected to do nothing less :(

Answer 2

It is interesting that you ask that Question in the Geology section.

Ph.d Geologist Don Patton has found the fossilized remains of 5 men, four women and a child. Some of the bones are articulated. However no evolutionist will verify the find. Many including Richard Dawkins refuse the travel to the site. The reason? These fossils are in the same strata as Dinosaur National Park. If this find were verified, this would put humans conteporary with Dinosaurs. Either Man is 100 million years old, or the dinosaurs lived very recently. Either way the Theory of evolution, as Richard Dawkins confesses, would be utterly shattered.

The find is factual. This means that you do not really need to worry that Man is decended from anything.

In addition near the same location there are human footprints along side of Dinosaur prints. The prints have been verified as genuine. Again Evolutionists will not come to the site. From their oak desks they declare that the prints are frauds.

Answer 3

OK! There's some truth in a lot of the answers below, but if you want a real handle on it it's probably more like this:
* there are now several types of apes, few of which were around when proto-humans were evolving, and they themselves have evolved at the same time as us, into what they are now, just as we have;
* I think it is fair to say we evolved from apes, because the difference between our pre-human ancestors and other apes are just as significant, or insignificant, as the differences between apes either of that time or this:
* whether we like it or not, we ARE apes.

We share 98% of the DNA that chimps and gorillas have, so they ARE our 'cousins', in a sense. So it isn't that all apes should have evolved into humans, they just evolved into different apes, as we did.

There is a grain of truth in the theory that we HAD to evolve or die, but the fact is that we, and our ancestors were more adaptable, more intelligent than our competitors and were able to survive in much more varied conditions than other mammals.

Answer 4

Oh dear this has got to be the 2nd most commonly asked question on Y!A after what comes first, the chicken or the egg?

Evolution does not mean the original dies out. The original only dies out if the conditions change enough for it to be unable to survive

Another way to look at it is simply that humans followed a different evolutionary path from apes. We didn't evolve from apes - apes and humans evolved from the same ape-like animal. We have since taken different paths, and both co-exist.

Answer 5

We evolved from a bipedal ape with a chimp sized brain that lived maybe 5 or 6 million years ago. This ape split into two populations, one evolving into us and the other evolving into chimps. A similar thing happened approximately 8 million years ago when a presumed biped split, one part evolving to that chimp human common ancestor and the other evolving to the gorilla. The chimp lineage underwent much evolution and converted from a biped (walking on two legs) to a quadraped (knucklewalker). I don't know if you are not interested in the truth and at the risk of losing some people because they are determined to believe that humans are not animals even if they should know better, the truth is that we are a type of ape. It is only because we are the one naming things that we separate ourselves from apes. So your question boils down to simply why are their various forms of apes in the world and the answer is simply that there are various niches which various types of apes evolved into. You might as well ask why are their numerous types of cats?

Answer 6

This question gets asked nearly every single day here on Yahoo Answers. There are hundreds of excellent answers already written - just do a search.

Basically, it's the same reason there are still people in Europe, even though most North Americans are descended from Europeans.

Just because one group of apes evolved to become humans doesn't mean they all did.

Answer 7

When humans evolved from apes, there were many intermediates, the "humans" gradually became better at eating different food groups and living in different ares, the apes remained in the origional areas and eating the same foods. there are still apes because there is still a place for them.

Answer 8

The answer is quite simple we did NOT evolve from apes. How is it that there are apes out their. How come they haven't become humans. It's simply because we are completely different than apes. We have different DNA, we have different brains, we look different apes

Answer 9

we did _NOT_ evolve from apes
men and apes both evolved along different lines from a common ape-like ancestor.
man has not stopped evolving, although, it is not noticable in a few genrations. Mankind tends to be taller (on average) than people in the middle ages, although it is debatable whether this can be put down to 'evolution', or simply better standards of lifestyle/nutrition

Answer 10

We evolved from a species closely related to apes.