Evolution - If man has evolved form monkeys, why have all monkeys not become men??

Answer 1

Hi,

When considering the chimp in the white house, I would say that at least one has come close.

Darryl S.

Answer 2

Your premise "if man has evolved from monkeys" is false, so the question as stated is not valid.
However, I think I understand the idea behind it, so I'll paraphrase myself from another answer (see Sources):

We did not evolve from present-day monkeys.
We are apes that share a common ancestor with other apes; and also an older common ancestor with other monkeys, and an even older common ancestor with all the other mammals, and so on.

We never "changed" into humans from monkeys, why and how should they "change" into humans?

All species evolve continuously, but this doesn't mean that they change into other existing species (unless we're talking about populations that merge by hybridization). And we are evolving, of course, but not "toward" becoming another living species; evolution does not have a destination.

The species that are living today are like the tips of the thousands of branches of the tree of life; ancestral species are at the nodes (junctions between those branches), but they're not extant today.

Answer 3

The actual answer to the question is that monkeys are well adapted to their niche in the world. They go around in trees eating fruit or whatever it is they do. Becoming more human-like would not improve their chances of survival. So if there's no selective pressure towards being human-like, evolution won't push them in that direction.

Evolutionary change generally occurs when something changes in the environment that encourages or forces the animals to change their way of life. A group of apes that got cut off from their forest and had to live on the plains might (if they survived at all) adapt over time in ways that made them more human. Something very roughly like that is what produced us.

It is not a process whereby all animals are somehow striving to get better and that intelligent, human-like life is somehow the pinacle.

Answer 4

If dogs have evolved from wolves, why have all wolves not become dogs?

Do you see now the faulty premise behind your question??

The answer is simple, humans and primates (just like dogs and wolves) share a common ancestor. What that means is... we diverged hundreds of thousands of years ago and took differing evolutionary paths... The particular path some of our common ancestors took led to modern man, the different paths some of our other common ancestors took led to modern monkeys, apes etc We each took a different road to get to where we are today... and it is impossible that any of those roads were exactly the same therefore we all arrived at a different destination. The conditions that led to us becoming what we are are impossible to duplicate exactly therefore we cannot expect that other species would arrive at the same conclusion as did we.

In the case of dogs it is the same thing... we took wolves out of the wild and over thousands of years, they diverged from their ancestors and became the dog as we know it... while the wolves that we left in the wild followed a different evolutionary path that led to wolves as we know them today. Just because we took some and changed the evolutionary pressures affecting their development doesnt mean that the original template would eventually change in the same way...

Answer 5

The theory of evolution doesn't say that man comes FROM monkeys, (that's a common misconception) it says that humans and monkeys evolved alongside each other--from the same SOURCES.

Answer 6

I think that primates and man have a common ancestor, which isn't quite the same thing as man evolving from monkeys

Answer 7

Man did not evolve from any species of monkey existing today. All the monkeys on the earth today are evolutionary cousins, not ancestors.

Answer 8

I believe in evolution.

Human already invented televison, why still keep radio?
Human already invented computer, why still keep tv?

btw, both human snd monkey evolve from the same ancestor, but we are not from the same line of evolution. we evolved seperatedly. the primate closest to us are gorilla, orang utan, chimpanze, according to closeness order. we share 98 percent of dna with chimpanzee.

Answer 9

Well, i would say we haven't evolved any more. And, it's sort of like a natural thing..........why is an orca black and white? It is just sort of the way it happened...we only have 1% different DNA than monkeys.
Good Question, Though!!

Answer 10

Humans are the result of a union between primal man/ape and a race of beings that were exiled here long ago (the Adamic race).
The human bible mentions this visit in story form (story of Adam & Eve).