If so how long will it take
2007-02-24 23:36:52 · 20 answers · asked by Sam 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
No. It never happened in the first place. Primitive man evolved into modern man, but monkeys are always monkeys, world without end.
2007-02-25 00:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is not a trajectory towards a goal. A better question would be "Will today's apes eventually converge into an animal similar to man?" that is a posibility that can not be removed until apes are extinct.
As for evolving "into" man, this is impossible. While a primate, gorillas are not even our closest relative. Since evolution has no trajectory, gorillas could only evolve into a different for of gorilla until it becomes a different species. No matter how these new gorillas evolve, they will never develope the same genetic, biochemical, and social interactions that humans of today have. The probability of a mutation occuring is greater than 10^6 (around 10^8 if jsut from transcription errors), and these mutations must occur in the gametes to be passed on, so the probability of 25,000 gorillas producing enough change before they go extinct is unlikely. i am not sure on the gorilla total number of chromosomes, but it is different than humans, and even for those genes that gorillas and humans share, they have different loci on different alleles. all of the probability of selecting for the same genes, in the same loci, on the same number of chromosomes makes for such a small probability that it will not happen.
2007-02-25 14:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by dane hoy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Man and the other great apes diverged some time ago and are on different evolutionary paths. Humans and the other apes are still evolving and none of the modern apes will exist in 5 million years but their descendents might. Our line could be extinct and the next intelligent life form could evolve from bonobos or gibbons, no-one knows.
You should read Climbing Mt Improbable by Richard Dawkins. It explains this point very well.
2007-02-24 23:54:50 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Modern apes never have and never will evolve into humans. The easiest way to think of it is as a family tree. Today’s apes and humans can be considered to be siblings and therefore can be traced to a common ancestor. A primate creature was the common 'mother' to modern apes and human but now our two lines are quite separate.
Apes will eventually evolve (given the opportunity) in to a different species but whatever that species is, it definitely won't he homosapien.
2007-02-24 23:50:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Please take this with the kindness I intend: once you've study any of the those solutions, it is going to probable be truly sparkling that you do not comprehend evolution o.k.. anybody is making an similar corrections: a million. guy did not evolve from any species of apes that exist at present; 2. guy and apes branched from a common ancestor, it really is extinct; 3. Species are born at the same time as one species branches into 2 ... 2 populations develop into separated and developed one after the other; 4. Apes have developed, and are nevertheless evolving; 5. Apes are truly satisfied and nicely-developed for his or her ecosystem, so that they do no longer ought to conform into guy, or some thing else: 6. cutting-edge apes can not evolve into guy because issues do not evolve into an *present* species, in effortless words into some thing new. 7. there is not any such element as a "lacking link" ... it really is a nonsense idea. there are quite some, many discovered *transitional varieties* (no longer lacking in any respect), yet no unmarried "lacking link." 8. Darwin isn't the in effortless words individual who proposed the evolution of primates, he became in simple terms the first to point a mechanism by which it would take position ... because then, evolution is a nicely-studied branch of technology that has been reconfirmed by *thousands* of scientists (a number of them fantastically sensible human beings) for over one hundred and fifty years. So from all of this it is going to probable be manifestly glaring to you you ought to study slightly extra earlier rejecting evolution outright. Please. i'm no longer asking you to settle for evolution. i'm asking you to *comprehend* it earlier rejecting it. it really is all. thanks!
2016-12-04 22:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think we are going the other way ,i think some people are evolving into apes
and humans did not evlove from the apes
all the post homo sapian humanoids lived at the same time in the same place ,and did not have millions of years between them as evolution would demand .
Many people today believe that we were cloned and genetically engineerd by the Anunaki as a slave race to mine thier gold
the reptilian brain in our heads is a souvenir of Anunaki genetics
2007-02-26 17:06:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe they will maybe they wont - evolution is not a predefined path ending with (in the case of homosapiens) us. lots of animals havnt change much at all in the time that it has taken us to get where we are. the apes that you see now are probably the same now as they were when we were starting to evolve into something more man like.
2007-02-24 23:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they will not. They may evolve into something similar to humans, but not humans.You asked this question because you misunderstood the theory of evolution. Unfortunately, most people know the theory the way you do. What to do.
2007-02-24 23:55:06 · answer #8 · answered by shyam k 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not likely. Evolution does not have a goal, nor does it always go from basic to more advanced. It only is adaptation to adjust to environment. (That is really basic explanation of a whole subset of Biology.)
If the same stresses that existed once occured again, and evolution followed the same path, then it is possible. But very, very, very, very unlikely.
2007-02-25 01:34:54 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the above poster. The world will look like the planet of the apes.
2007-02-24 23:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by Jay S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋