If, according to Darwin, human origin is from a monkey, who did the monkey originate from?

Question

Thank you ALL for clearing it for me. Nevertheless, I know about Australopithecus and Pithecanthropus, but still don't know where they came from!

Answer 1

If you believe in complete Darwinism, then the theory holds that our earliest ancestors were protozoan type single celled organisms sprung for the primordial ooze. These theoretically evolved into multi-celled organisms living in cesspools, and ponds. As the bodies of water coalesced on the surface of the earth the seas were born, and so were our earliest complex ancestors, something akin to krill which became aqueous creatures, which became amphibians, with lungs, and legs. These creatures literally walked up out of the oceans and eventually beacame the mammals to which we trace our lineage.

Answer 2

We are still evolving, that will not, and can not be stopped. The direction may be changes deliberately or inadvertently, but natural selection can't be turned off. Individuals don't evolve in the Darwinian sense. Evolution of large complex organisms takes a very, very long time. There never were half man half monkeys, there were other hominids besides H. sapiens, but we killed 'em all either directly or indirectly. Humans kill each other over trivial differences of opinion, can you imagine the response to a real species level difference between us and other near humans. There were neanderthals in Europe when modern humans arrived, they aren't there anymore, there were a few derivatives of H. erectus in Asia when humans arrived, again, bye-bye all gone.

Answer 3

I'm not really a Darwinist, but Darwin did not claim that humans originated from monkeys. Instead, he claimed that humans and monkeys (well, apes really) have a COMMON ancestor. That is, they originated from the same species many years ago.

Marcroevolution holds to the belief that, in fact, all species originated from the same ancestor when life began billions of years ago. However, science has never proved (and probably will never be able to, in my opinion) how life spontaneously formed in the first living organism. Similarly, many evolutionary theories directly defy pre-established scientific laws. (e.g. Clausius' Second Law of Thermodynamics, Schlieden & Schwann's Three Laws of Cells) Therefore, evolution can in many ways be considered a belief system in the same way that any religion can be identified as such.

Answer 4

The theory of origin is paraphrased as:

Originally the basis for cellular life existed on Earth and this was the existence of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Potassium and other elements on Earth

The theory is Archaea type organisms were the original organisms that evolved spontaneously from the base elements and evolved into the bacteria, Plants and animals we know today, The simple prokaryotic organisms without nucleus were the first organisms to evolve then eukaryotic organisms with nucleus such as animals and plants evolved

Answer 5

humans originate from smaller (premature/undeveloped) organisms ... like reptiles .. fish ... bacteria .. etc according to Darwin or 'share a common ancestor' (which both mean one thing really)

but then again, i dont believe in evolution as such .. I believe in God .. and am sure that evolution can exsist but God is who created the first living being, and he is the one who is constantly changing it .... if Darwin was correct (he did contradict himself at the end), so how was the first living being came to exsistance, and again, what gave it a 'SOUL' ??

science has not yet found an answer to what is 'soul' or what makes a 'living' thing 'alive'. i dont wanna put down spirits (as am defently one of the seekers of knowledge and a scientist), but the answer to 'soul' will be never be found ,, and bringing a 'dead' cell to 'live' is impossible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

To the responders above, I was a scientist worth my salt, and if I showed you a picture of that common ancestor, you would certainly exclaim, "Looks like a monkey to me!"

Anyway. Monkeys likely descended from something that was very much like a lemur.

Answer 7

Darwin never, nor did any scientist worth their salt, said that man evolved from monkeys. Rather they share a common ancestor.

Several lemur-like fossil species have been identified as possible ancestors.

Answer 8

What you have asked is called a strawman argument. Look it up sometime.

Humans and monkeys (chimps to be exact) have a COMMON ANCESTOR. This means we are like cousins. There was a common ancestor and both chimps and humans decend from this common ancestor.

Answer 9

Humans did NOT originate from monkeys, we just have common ancestors.

Answer 10

You are wrong. But I'm seeing that others have already set you on the right course. Man did not descend from apes; man and apes descended from a common primate ancestor.