why not? some humans races became apes?and not the contrary
2007-02-12 01:50:29 · 9 answers · asked by booster 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
So...you're a fan of Planet of the Apes?
2007-02-12 13:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, honey. Do more reading lots more reading...LOTS!!!!! Subscribe to Discover Magazine, watch the Discovery Channel, sign up to get Scientific American and the National Geographic.... if you are old enough to as these questions, hon, you are old enough to not remain ignorant of the answers for too much longer........
Apes and men have a common ancestor, as do all primates.... but they are one "branch" of the evolutionary "tree", and we on another, and monkeys on yet another, and so on. They didn't descent from us, nor did we descend from them.. but we are very closely related, as are all primates.... over 99% our our DNA is exactly the same as a chimp, and gorillas are next in line to having close DNA. In fact, on this planet, haven't you notice that about all critters have a central body, and 5 projections --- two upper, two lower, and a head.....(you even have a tail but we don't generally call that a projection) Whales look like this, cheetahs, turtles, birds, lizards ----- curious, huh? Maybe we are all related?????????????????????????????????? (and of course the answer is yes.... even an oak tree has lots of DNA that matches yours)
2007-02-12 02:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by April 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Primates and man have a genetic defect that prevents the synthesis of vitamin c which shows they all evolved from a common ape like ancestor.
2007-02-12 03:39:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is lot of scientific evidence that it was not so. Genetics and also morphological and developmental comparisons allow us to draw the "tree of life" and extrapolate which species are ancestors to which. Humans and recent apes are "cousins" - we have common ancestors, but you can not say that humans evolved from apes (or vice versa :-).
2007-02-12 02:02:43 · answer #4 · answered by zuska m 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Humans are most closely related to chimpanzees but they are not descended from chimpanzees. Both humans and chimps are descended from another animal that was neither a chimp nor a human. Let's call it a humochimp.
The next nearest relative to humans is the gorilla, but humochimps did not descend from gorillas, and gorillas did not descnend from humochimps. There was another creature from which humochimps and gorillas were both descended. Let's call it a humchimpilla.
Humchimpillas and orang-utans were descended from yet another creature.
2007-02-12 01:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
which ape are you speaking of? ape is a family not a species, if you're speaking of gorilla's, yes, but humans are 98% identical in DNA with chimpanzees, another ape, thus they are our closet relative we know of.
2007-02-12 02:18:16 · answer #6 · answered by Falcon Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, as a group apes, (Not chimpanzees or baboons), are far more gentle, and well mannered than humans.
2007-02-12 01:58:05 · answer #7 · answered by Rockvillerich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fossil and DNA evidence says: DEFINITELY NOT! Go to: http://www.talkorigins.org/ and read several modern books on evolution.
2007-02-12 02:03:12 · answer #8 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nah.
2007-02-12 01:52:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋