I have a question about evoltoin?

Question

If we evolved from monkeys, then why dont monkeys continue to evolve, why arent there still AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS,etc around.
why dont humans continue to evolve.

evolution not evoltion. sorry :)

Answer 1

Look out, here come the evolutionists!

Answer 2

"Evolution is a secular progressive idea. Evolutionsists can not explain the evolution of the eye. It makes no sense. More importantly, if all these random mutations were occuring to make species "upgrades", where are all the fossils of the bad mutations? The reason you can not find an answer to your question is that evolution is a lie."

Adaptations don't last forever because environmental conditions change. Some mutations might be good at one time and bad at another. Plus the fact that detrimental mutations wouldn't be widespread because they are... DETRIMENTAL.

I actually agree that the eye would be impossible to have been evolved if that was the intention all along. But as anybody who has read about evolution will tell you; things do not evolve toward a specific thing.

Not every evolutionist is secular btw.

Answer 3

You are making the same mistake that so many creationists make about evolution ... the error of thinking of evolution as a CHAIN or a LADDER ... creature A transforming into B, then C, then D, etc.

If you learn ONE thing about evolution, understand that evolution is not a chain or ladder. Evolution is a branching TREE. ('Divine Lungfish' called it a "shrub" ... same thing ... the key image is one of constantly splitting branches.) Species A *splits* into two branches A and B, which can then branch into more species A, B, C, D, E, etc. all of which can be living quite happily at the same time, or go on branching, or changing, ... or some of which can go extinct.

So, as anybody who understands *anything* about evolution will tell you over and over (please listen to them) ... WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS! Really. We didn't.

Whoever told you we evolved from monkeys was giving you the 2nd grader, CARTOON version of evolution. This is the absurd image that some monkeys started "morphing" into humans, while others somehow remained frozen in time ... frozen in the state they were in when we "evolved" from them. This is an absurd version of evolution that NO scientist holds.

Instead, humans and monkeys are two branches from the same ancestor. Humans evolved. So did monkeys. Monkeys are every bit as evolved as we are. Monkeys are every bit as adapted to their environment as we are.

Why aren't there Australopithecus afarensis around? Because it changed, becoming the ancestor to the Homo branch, which in turn had several branches, only one of which is still alive ... Homo sapiens. Why is that so mysterious?

And who told you that humans "don't continue to evolve"?

I agree absolutely with 'Divine Lungfish' ... It is not your fault that you have such a bad understanding of evolution. Whoever has explained evolution to you, either doesn't understand it at all, or is deliberately feeding you a really absurd version of evolution just so that they can then say "see, isn't it absurd!"

Answer 4

Thank you for being brave enough to ask this question. It is clear that you have been given very little explanation about how evolution works (which is not your fault), and I will be happy to fill in some "missing links" in your understanding here.

Think of evolution metaphorically as a shrub, not a ladder. Every species alive now, including humans, is a leaf on the shrub. Every leaf sits on a branch that can be traced back to the main stem. If we start at the human leaf and work backwards, the first other branch we intersect happens about 5.4 million years down, and is the one leading to the chimpanzee and bonobo leaves. This means that we shared a most recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos. Right at this branch point, there used to be a population of primates that didn't look exactly like any of these species. This population was divided somehow (probably geographically or behaviorally) into two groups. One group gradually developed into humans, and the other group went on to later split again and develop into chimps and bonobos.

A little further down the branch at about 7 million years ago (mya), we intersect with the gorilla branch. We merge with the orangutans around 12 mya, gibbons at about 15 mya, and the old world monkeys at about 23 mya. Our branch then joins all the other branches leading to mammals, then all the other vertebrates (animals with backbones). Continuing down, we join the fungi, plants, protists (huge groups of organisms like algae, ciliates, and flagellates that most people sadly don't care much about), and ultimately bacteria. We have finally reached the stem, which was the first living population of cells. These were bacteria that lived around 3.5 billion years ago.

How do we know all this? Amazingly, molecular data (DNA sequences), morphology (physical appearance), and the fossil record all converge on the same picture. Keep in mind that the definition of evolution is a change in allele frequency (such as number of blue-eyed people) in a population over time. Allele frequencies are always changing, so populations are always evolving. Therefore, the "shrub" is still growing and changing shape as all branches are either evolving or dying off via extinctions.

Hopefully, you can now see that monkeys did not need to "disappear" for us to be here any more than your cousin had to disappear for you to exist.

Answer 5

Rather than evolving, life on Earth is actually devolving. This is why there is no evidence for evolution. For a complete explanation, go to Paul McDaniel at okinawablue dot com and read The Case For The Eventual Extinction OF Mankind.

Answer 6

Because the monkeys that are still monkeys lived in environments that caused them no reason to evolve. Man evolved from primates in specific environments that for various reasons depending on brain power to muscle ratio to conditions ratio caused them to evolve and become self aware as opposed to our crap-flinging friends we know today who have stayed as they are. Not everything evolves as dramatically as we have. That and humans have only been recording history for roughly 8-9 thousand years, and biology and the morphology of animals for much less. 9 thousand years on the grand scale of evolution is maybe less hair and a larger dick.

Answer 7

Monkeys are continuing to evolve. Evolution happens slowly. SLOWLY. Check my first source link.

And to the guy who's so mesmerized by the human eye, check my second source link for a video explanation.

Answer 8

We didn't evolve from monkeys.

Chimpanzees and human have a common anscestor about 4 million years back. Cro Magnon and Homo Habilus are predecessors to humans from after that split. Neanderthals are a branch off from our ancestry, but they died off.

Who is to say monkeys and humans aren't still evolving? In animals as complex as primates (as opposed to, say, insects) it takes hundreds of thousands of years to see changes.


Dr. Rocco is badly informed and makes some very illogical statements. He needs to go read his Discovery Institute pamphlets a little better.

Answer 9

No one ever said that evolution happened overnight. I don't know how you came about that idea. You should stick around for a million years then you will see humans evolve.

Answer 10

monkeys, australopithicus, etc. do not eviolve more because monkeys are farthest back in the chain- it would take us millions of years to notice any changes in monkeys, "caveman" has been pushed aside, wiped out or absorbed into our population. we ARE still evolving..we are getting taller every generation, we are losing any need for little toes, appendix, certain glands, etc.

Answer 11

Evolution is a secular progressive idea. Evolutionsists can not explain the evolution of the eye. It makes no sense. More importantly, if all these random mutations were occuring to make species "upgrades", where are all the fossils of the bad mutations? The reason you can not find an answer to your question is that evolution is a lie.