If we came from a common ancestor? Where's the missing link?
2007-02-19 09:39:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm speaking for most of us of course.
2007-02-19 09:40:27 · update #1
How come? Simple really.
We have opposible thumbs. This gave us the ability to read a newspaper and turn the pages. The "sale" ad for reasoning ability and emotional intelligence was on page 8. We read it. Apes didn't. We made it to the sale. They didn't.
...what? Oh, right. Uh, I've just been informed that apes ALSO have the danged thumb thing.
Uh...um...okay! Got it. It seems that WE subscribed to the paper that the sale was advertised in. The apes only caught wind of the sale AFTER it was over (they pilfered the day-old newspaper from the rubbish but it was too late for the hairy cousins!).
whew....that was a close one...
Yaks(pbut)
(theory of the missing link coming shortly)
2007-02-19 09:45:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy -- we assume that these attributes are better or 'higher' than other attributes which isn't the case. A mutation that was more advantageous for a specific environment gave a slight advantage to those w/ the mutation. And so on and so on. Our common ancestors developed into other species based on advantages for survival in those environments. But the different species are not higher or lower because of these attributes.
2007-02-19 17:48:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't bother speaking for most of us, speak for yourself. There are many many people in this world who take a place on a scale of sentience - higher apes like chimps, at the lower end and people like Einstein, Mozart and Micheal Angelo at the top. Without being too racist, I think it's fair to say that many Arabs, sub-Saharan Africans, Indonesians, Aboriginals are not that progressed along the scale so these people might be the "missing link" to which you refer.
2007-02-19 17:47:02 · answer #3 · answered by Desiree J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have more and better reasoning ability and emotional intelligence. Other primates have it, also, to various degrees. So, we're talking about it existing in a matter of degrees in various animals. It's not hard to see how one branch can follow a different path than others and develop more intelligence than others.
2007-02-19 17:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because apes didn't evolve along the same lines that we did. The missing link is Pat Robertson.
2007-02-19 17:47:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't come from a common ancestor. That's the difference.
God made human with the ability to reason.
God made the animals different.
2007-02-19 17:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by Red-dog-luke 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What makes you think you have more reasoning ability and emotional intelligence than animals who don't create unnecessary items that pollute their environment and destroy their families?
2007-02-19 17:42:33 · answer #7 · answered by gelfling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And how come they have more than a fish which has more than a tree. All can be answered with a cursory glance through the literature.
2007-02-19 17:42:02 · answer #8 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some of us evolved it.
there are still plenty of throwbacks, of course, as evidenced by some of the posters here.
2007-02-19 17:48:15 · answer #9 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any reasoning ability?
I don't think so.
lol
rotfl
2007-02-19 17:42:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋