I know very little about the ''missing link'' but it seems strange that once monkeys evolved into humans we don't see this process anymore.
2007-02-13 12:31:32 · 11 answers · asked by inner peace 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
because monkeys didnt really dodnt turn into humans, you can say monkeys and humans have a common ancestor but monkeys did not turn into humans, otherwise they would be dead. the missing link infact is some four legged monkey like animal and in response to the environment they change over the cource of million years, something one cannot see in their life time
2007-02-13 12:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Dataguard 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Think of the evolutionary process as a bush with many branches. While monkeys, apes and humans all spring from a common branch (ancestor), our respective branches are now growing (evolving) in different directions.
2007-02-13 13:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two things. Monkeys and humans have common ancestors that branched away from each other MYA. There is no missing link, as that is a misapprehension of evolutionary theory. Evolutionary linage's branch, as a bush would, so you have many related organisms " climbing the branches " and arriving at the tips. So, go back down the branch and you can find the branch point that leads to you and your simian relatives. Go here.
http://www.talkorigins.org
PS It takes selection pressure to move organisms off evolving all the time and to speciation, such as geographic barriers. Otherwise, we all change allele frequencies over time.
2007-02-13 12:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
evolution is a process which takes thousands of years. slowly, because of special adaptations, a population is narrowed down based on several individuals' abilities to survive. for example, if there was a species of bug that was red and brown, but the brown blended in with bark and was less likely to be eaten, soon there would only be brown bugs reproducing and the red individuals in the species would be eliminated. the most important rule of evolution is that entire species evolve, NOT individuals. a branch of primates at one point probably was seperated from the rest, and over the natural course of history and evolution (over hundreds of thousands of years) they slowly better adapted to the environment and supposedly developed into humans. today, the primates have no need to become more humanlike, and even if they did we would not see them evolving until probably the next millenium.
2007-02-13 12:38:36 · answer #4 · answered by squirrelgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the evolutionary process takes millions and millions of years, and thousands of generations, so we still do see this process, its just that it takes 1000s of lifetimes to notice it.
chimps are evolving but not into humans. at the same time humans are evolving too. it was just chance events that lead to humans being the humans that we know, and chimps being the chimps we know.
2007-02-13 13:21:53 · answer #5 · answered by im17yearsold_strait 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monkeys didn't turn into humans. Humans and monkeys share a common ancestor. Know what you're arguing against or no one will listen to you.
2007-02-13 12:36:11 · answer #6 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we are but only one link in the evolutionary chain and it would probably be awhile until we see another genetic change in the Homosapiens (assuming that the human race will last long enough to evolve once more...)
2007-02-13 12:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolution takes thousands of years. Its not like one day a chimpanzee just stood up, grew three feet, lost most of its course body hair, and had its opposable big toe become unopposable.
2007-02-13 12:40:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're evolving into better monkeys...
2007-02-13 12:38:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bcuz that monkey crap is not real
2007-02-13 12:35:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋