What do you think the monkey/ape/common ancestor evolved from?
Last night I was talking to someone from yahoo answers on instant messenger and he asked me why do we evolutionists get mad over the use of the word monkey.
I don't think we should, our common ancestor with the apes would look like a monkey to the naked eye, and why argue over the use of the word.
I think one of the more common misconceptions is that of if man came from monkeys why are there still monkeys. This of course is answered with geographic isolationism. But a good follow up would be, where did the monkeys come from?
Someone on their 360 last night blogged about the failure of Evolution is the Darwin Tree of Life being innaccurrate, while I contend the success of science is the flexibity to update that tree.
In my life I've seen several versions.
So, my question, before they were monkeys, and they would appear as monkeys to the naked eye, what were our ancestors?
2007-02-07 02:36:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I saw a documentary that said that the first mammal was a shrew-like creature.
Is coming from a rodent better than coming from a monkey?
2007-02-07 02:40:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you're a support of evolution, how can you not know the answer to that?
You can't effectively argue against something if you know nothing about the "something" you're arguing against. You only look like a fool.
I think you're probably the first person that believes in evolution that I've ever told to go study it some more.
It doesn't matter what something looks like to the naked eye. Thats only packaging. Many things look like something else. Ever seen a Twig fish? Yeah well, it looks exactly like the name says. A twig. Until you get near it and it moves. If you pick it up, it has gills. Its a bloody fish, not a twig.
And I just ran out of time to be on here. Go study evolution more. Knowledge is the most power any person can have and the only excuse for not having any is mental failure.
2007-02-07 02:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer that I have is the common one shared above, but I just wanted to say that it doesn't upset me when someone asks about monkeys. I do not even mind if they call me a monkey. What I do mind is their ignorance when they ask if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys. I'm mad at the stupidity they display...not that I am being compared to a monkey. On most days, I'll take a monkey over a human.
2007-02-07 02:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question...and to those that say all apes and man evolved from a lower simian order...then why did the monkeys evolve so poorly while we evolved so highly to this like out of this universe good compared to the other monkeys...makes no sense at all does it???
2016-05-24 02:54:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look for Dawkins' book 'The Ancestors' Tale'. It traces back human evolution - every common ancestor along the way. Very cool. The ape progression is something like chimp, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, and so on, past a lot of interesting animals. Check it out.
2007-02-07 02:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Smaller four legged mammals.
Before that, probably a "land fish" capable of breathing air.
Before that, fish.
We might have come from dinosaurs in between land fish and small mammals.
The only problems with using "monkey" is that 1. it is almost always used in the question "why are there still monkeys" and 2. it shows a lack of knowledge and/or understanding of how evolution works. Generally it is wanton ignorance. So the real problem is with the ignorance.
2007-02-07 02:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The group before the simians (monkeys as a whole) were the protosimians- tree-dwelling mammals that resemble today's lemurs and such.
Since this is a question that could be answered many places, including the already mentioned 'tree of life', i have to wonder what the reason for the question is.
2007-02-07 02:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are thousands of transitional fossils showing the progression of early mammals to tree-dwelling primates.
After all we still have lower order primates in the form of lemurs, marmosets et al.
Not to worry, you're on the right track, just a bit more education is needed.
2007-02-07 02:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I just want to see all the fossils that they have that lead up to humans. I want all transitional phases. Do you have that evidence for me? Let me answer that for you no you don't. a fish can't turn into a human and that's exactly what would have had to happen for evolution to be true. Don't be so silly.
2007-02-07 02:45:20 · answer #9 · answered by mary3127 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Monkeys evolved from small rodent like creatures which evolved from mammal like reptiles.
2007-02-07 02:39:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋