If evolution is true, then why are there still humans?

Question

Why haven't they all evolved into Chimpanzees?

Answer 1

um... yeah
i don't even know where to start with this one...

your idiotic questions make you look totally moronic

Answer 2

Evolution takes untold numbers of generations before identifiable change can be measured. Creatures with shorter lifespans are able to better display the effects of evolution. We can monitor evolution in bacteria and other lifeforms that go through a generation in a day or less, but not in humans. We can only look at fossil record to show the effects of evolution on humans.

As for evolution being a "theory," that is bull. Evolution is proven and accepted as scientific fact, not theory. To argue otherwise is to walk with blinders on to the world around you. This would be a very common thing among religious zealots, though, so I wouldn't be surprised at it.

Now, humans aren't going to evolve backwards, for the most part, but we might devolve some over time, until we change things about our behavior. We're no longer a part of natural selection, due to medicine and other methods of lengthening our lifespan and overcoming handicaps. We no longer adhere to "the strong survive" and it's often our weaker or less intelligent members of society that breed the most. If you look around, the families with three or more children tend to be the ones that are the least fit to raise those children, while families that are better able to raise children, tend to stop at one or two, or never have any at all.

Think about this..... We encourage individuals with Downs Syndrome to live normal lives, including marrying and having children. Because they often marry others with the same disorder, that means that their children also share the disabling condition. In this way, we actually encourage the propagation of undesirable genetic traits, rather than letting them die off. If anything destroys the human race, it will be this breeding mishap. Eventually, we'll have incredible technology, but no one will be able to work or repair it.

Answer 3

A little to much time in church, not enough in school. Evolution is a description of the process by which living things adapt to there environment and how that adaptation affects the species. As humans tend to adapt our environment to us as opposed to adapting to the enviroment, we wouldn't necessarily see sweeping changes in humans. Humans are always changing, our bodies are of a different size then even just a hundred years ago. Humans also posess a strange brand of intelligence that opposes evolution, our poorest, our least educated, our least successful have the most children, this would cause the traits that exist in these populations to propagate more than what we would consider "successful" traits.
A human now is a very different creature than a human was centuries ago, but alligators and crocodiles have gone even longer, I guess we have settled into our niche.

Answer 4

Why is it now, only different? That's what your question boils down to.
Humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor that lived several million years ago.

Answer 5

Humans screwed evolution when we stopped fighting for survival. We have adapted our climate to the point where we don't need to evolve. There can be no evolution with peace in the way.

Answer 6

Evolution happens slowly. Come back in 100,000 years or so and you'd see a difference. That is if the religious fanatics haven't blown the human race to kingdom come.

Answer 7

Humans haven't been around very long. It takes a while to evolve into something else, especially something as different from us as a chimpanzee. There are many stages in between different species.

Answer 8

hmmm. humans evolved from more primitive ape-like creatures, such as chimps, so if we evolved in chimpanzees we would actually be devolving. evolution takes millions of years, humans have only been around for like a hundred-thousand or something.

Answer 9

you have it backward humans evolved from chimpanzees, humans cant evolve anyfurther until our species as a collective learn to shed their ego and live life for onesselve not to impress others. plus many other reasons to many to list.

Answer 10

Um...that would be retrograde.

There is evidence of evolution in humans; in fact, mountains of it.

Here's an easy place to start: genome Delta 32, which has been shown to appear in increasing instances in populations which have been decimated by plague.

Look up some links to it; it's quite interesting!

Answer 11

We haven't evolved yet. Which explains why I sometimes have the urge to listen to G.W.'s speeches with a sense of optimism. This trait will soon be extinct as well.